Star Trek is very cool indeed, but today I have something far more worrying to blog about. According to this article, hate crimes against disabled people are increasing. More and more people are getting beaten and abused, just because they have a dissbility. What makes this even worse is that these crimes are going largely unpunished. Recently, a group of thugs beat a young autistic boy half to death, and got away with iit virtually scott free.

I used to try to disbelieve such things, tellling myself there are other factors invvolved. Thinking oneself part of a hated minority is unhealthy, as it means you see yourself as an outsider, and you get increasingly paranoid. I do not like the idea that people hate ‘us’ for who we are. Yet if the reports are true, disability hate crime is a reality, and is increasing. I find that very worrying indeed: about the reasons for this I can only speculate, but my hunch is that, as the cuts begin to bite, disabled people will be seen as scroungers even more so such crimes will increase.

No longer can this simply be ignored.