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Because governments are making it normal to hate people who are marginalised.
I admit that we have always had issues with racism and ableism... but it always ramps up in the treatment that black and disabled people face when governments and the media start the rhetoric of "These people are the problem".
Members of the public then seem to think that someone died and made them immigration police/doctors overnight and they can go around demanding to see proof of nationality or disability.
No one will stand up for them when this happens because it means challenging recent indoctrination.
We talk about ISIS radicalisation - yet, we don't hold governments to account when the language they choose to use in debates creates problems for the people who they are supposed to be serving.
I admit that we have always had issues with racism and ableism... but it always ramps up in the treatment that black and disabled people face when governments and the media start the rhetoric of "These people are the problem".
Members of the public then seem to think that someone died and made them immigration police/doctors overnight and they can go around demanding to see proof of nationality or disability.
No one will stand up for them when this happens because it means challenging recent indoctrination.
We talk about ISIS radicalisation - yet, we don't hold governments to account when the language they choose to use in debates creates problems for the people who they are supposed to be serving.