Hating on disability hate!

I know it's a cliché, but what if you were told you resembled a freak? How would you react? Do you think somebody should react to that? Would the consequences be worth it? Last night, ABC2 aired a decent documentary called The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime, hosted by Adam Pearson, an English actor and comedian with neurofibromatosis. Focusing on people with facial disfigurements, it emphasised how disability hate crimes are disproportionately prosecuted in the UK compared to those towards other minorities (but without trivialising those ones, pleasantly). Why is this so? A lack of time and resources? A lack of regard for or trust in the disabled? Or do the disabled largely distrust them from personal experience?

(Adam Pearson.)

I don't know the figures for here in Australia, and despite being autistic I've mainly been harassed over my life for my build (and rarely physically). But wherever and whoever it is between, fear of the unknown or unusual only excuses so much, if anything, and anybody like Pearson who never surrenders to oppression (as I try not to) is an inspiration to us all. Let us all take a permanent, public stand against ableism. Especially you, ablebodied, neurotypical people!