The Trump-Musk assault on disability rights is monstrous on its own but also the start of a wider assault on other vulnerable populations. Pay attention. - ThreadSky

kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 1 day ago

The Trump-Musk assault on disability rights is monstrous on its own but also the start of a wider assault on other vulnerable populations. Pay attention.

Reposted from David M. Perry

NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

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deetsupreme.bsky.social•1 day ago

It all boils down to a) privatizing schools for profit and special ed is expensive and b) they want segregated schools and no special ed.

darksideoftheroad.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’re trash and of course, many disabled veterans will be punished too.

rigbythedog.bsky.social•1 day ago

In late 2020 (before election day), Stephen Miller said the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 had to be repealed because it was "too costly for corporations."

alan2210.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's always been an evil, bigoted, bastard, maga knew that and still voted for him, twice

“get rid of the (expletive) Braille. No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower. Just do it,”

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-braille-trump-towers-elevators_n_5b9a30fde4b015089c0daa3c

noodle557.bsky.social•1 day ago

The dictator donny and Putin and Elon Alliance
History says
They shived
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and sank his boats
Problem solved
Call your Reps and Senate 202-224-3121

ob-in-nc.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is where I actually do go “why?”

Where I don’t understand the purpose. All the other shit I can get from their idiotic and cruel visions. Why go after disabled people? Hell, one of the biggest maga ghouls alive is disabled, confined to. A wheelchair.

darkest-timeline.bsky.social•1 day ago

And his state joined the effort to end 504s.

obregonia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Disabilities occur in every demographic group including rich white heterosexual Republican Christian households. It's one minority group that cannot be "erased." This is part of the reason why historically we have our own statutory protections. GOPs are on the wrong side. That's all there is to it.

darkest-timeline.bsky.social•1 day ago

The disabled are the traditional first target of Nazis.

shadowspade14.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yup, it won't be long before we see Trump/Musks version of Lebensunwertes Leben

sinistar7510.bsky.social•1 day ago

Just say it plain: Ultimately, outright eugenics is not off the table for them.

dgwats.bsky.social•8 hours ago

You can’t murder them all or stick them all in institutions if they still have rights. That just won’t do. You have to take away their rights first.

tvane2710.bsky.social•17 hours ago

The article is blocked by a paywall.

jco921.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Ignorance and Bigotry, like other insanities, are INCAPABLE of self government.”
T. Jefferson to John Adams 1813
A democratic society can only thrive if its citizens are well informed and free from prejudice.
Can our republican leaders make decisions that benefit the common good?
Not right now!!!

erinishere1999.bsky.social•1 day ago

Jefferson actually wrote that statement to Lafayette, in 1817, and it was expressing his dismay that the people of South America were achieving independence from colonial rule. Weird that the slave owner didn’t think the brown people were capable of self-governance.

erinishere1999.bsky.social•1 day ago

The same bigotry with which he wrote that is what we’re seeing displayed in America today. White folks don’t believe in democracy if Black and brown folks get to participate.

froggyfella.bsky.social•1 day ago

😅

einst1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think there's a poem about this...

sigreign.bsky.social•1 day ago

By a guy who didn't think he would be effected...

rookie93.bsky.social•1 day ago

I said a similar thing when the NPS took the TQ+ off the Stonewall Inn Monument last week. They are literally trying to erase trans people. Now it’s the disabled. Last month it was immigrants. Next week will be…? Eventually it will be you.

delcodick.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can you think of any historical instances where this has happened before? 🤔

friendofdog.bsky.social•1 day ago

Eliminating 504 plans for students & reducing special education services will harm all students in public education. Teachers will have fewer resources to help students with greater needs. Classrooms will be less manageable. Parents with $ resources will feel compelled to send their kids to private

friendofdog.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is a way to gut public education. If families with more $ leave public education, they’ll be less likely to support school bonds/taxes and public schools will have fewer and fewer resources over time. The rich will still get educated, everyone else - not so much

thefirstarticle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Conservatives live in constant fear that somebody they think is their inferiors being treated like their equal.

erinishere1999.bsky.social•1 day ago

As soon as I read about this case, I said - -ah, it’s First They Came being laid out in plain sight in real time.

khb1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Vulnerable populations isn’t just lbgtq+. It’s parents after a heart attack or stroke. It’s a brother with prostate cancer. It’s your kid who learns differently. It’s anyone needing long term PT after a horrific car accident. And it’s anyone suspected of alcohol or drug dependency/abuse. You maybe?

riggsveda.bsky.social•1 day ago

And this is why they reversed course on stopping disability discrimination complaints: they can slow-walk such complaints while using them to push back on the idea of their “assault on disability rights”. But the EOs still refer to DEIA.
https://bsky.app/profile/megomatz.bsky.social/post/3lioxfexj3f2v

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