we need to fight, but not alienate

While I don’t think I would go as far as equating what the Tories are doing to the Nazi T4 program, as such comparisons usually just work to make one seem far too militant, I think I’ll just direct you here, to a call to arms by Bob Williams-findlay. It is certainly true, of course, that people with disabilities are being hit hardest by the cuts; the cuts have indeed caused deaths. Thus such a battle-cry is needed; as Williams-Findlay writes: ”We MUST mount a resistance, fighting cuts and oppressive policies, is not enough in relation to this ideological onslaught – it is a State run ‘hate campaign’ and more and more disabled people will die.” We must all unite under a single banner and combat this foe together; that is, after all, why there needs to be an ‘us‘ and a ‘we’. I just fear that using language that is too strong, going too far in our comparisons (and, the flying spaghetti monster knows, I can be just as guilty of that as anyone) might actually alienate people who would otherwise be on our side, putting people off by looking like a bunch of teenagers moaning for the sake of it.

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