I was only recently made aware of this: in July, a man broke into Tsukui Yamayuriena, a home for the disabled, and stabbed residents while they slept, killing 19 and wounding another 26. He then turned himself into the police, saying he did it because "it is better if disabled people disappear".
I mean, we have hashtags for the shootings in Paris and Germany and the bombing in Brussels and all kinds of things, but this massacre happens and the world press basically goes, "Eh, so what?"
And that's fucked up. And part of it is because the victims are disabled, who are often an invisible minority.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...ukui-yamayuriena-gone-unnoticed-a7217661.html
I mean, we have hashtags for the shootings in Paris and Germany and the bombing in Brussels and all kinds of things, but this massacre happens and the world press basically goes, "Eh, so what?"
And that's fucked up. And part of it is because the victims are disabled, who are often an invisible minority.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...ukui-yamayuriena-gone-unnoticed-a7217661.html
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