Cancel Racism Against the Disabled - The Scourge of Ableism (independent, Nevada)

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This article, Equality Matters, The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use (link), highlights the disgusting discrimination against the disabled.

Originally Posted by BBC

(link), excerpt)
So, it always stings when I’m reminded that for many, the word ‘deaf’ has little to do with what I love most – in fact, its connotations are almost exclusively negative. For example, in headlines across the world – Nevada’s proposed gun safety laws, pleas from Ontario’s elderly and weather safety warnings in Queensland – have all “fallen on deaf ears”.
This kind of ‘ableist’ language is omnipresent in conversation: making a “dumb” choice, turning a “blind eye” to a problem, acting “crazy”, calling a boss “psychopathic”, having a “bipolar” day. And, for the most part, people who utter these phrases aren’t intending to hurt anyone – more commonly, they don’t have any idea they’re engaging in anything hurtful at all.

It is as if we are putting our knee on the neck of the disabled. Kurt Vonnegut in Harrison Bergeron (not sure whether short story names are underlined) had the right idea, to equalize all people regardless of ability to avoid stigma and hate. In the story, people were "handicapped" so that they could not excel:

Originally Posted by (written by author) Kurt Vonnegut

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

It is high time that we stop the hurtful micro-aggressions that are part of every day life. Or perhaps the better analogy is jump-the-shark. I don't know.