AIBU to think that all the recent threads about benefits are heading too far towards online bullying?

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The way disabled people are being treated and spoken about on here in recent days is disgusting. It is verging on online hate crimes and if ithey were about other marginalised groups would not have been allowed to stand by MNHQ.

The disinformation, the sneering, the complete lack of compassion from so many Mumsnetters is vile.

Disability for the very most part isn't something that people bring onto themselves. Parents don't do anything but have different luck to you and have a disabled child.

My genetics are different to yours so I have a fucked up immune system and the host of problems that has given me.

My DH had a horrific upbringing which has led him to have MH problems- he works by the way. I did too for a long time until my body couldn't cope.

My DC was injured at birth due to a hospital fault.

My neighbour fell off his bike and has a traumatic brain injury.

My friend has breast cancer.

My cousin is dead at 38 due to epilepsy.

My nephew is so unhappy due to his ADHD bot letting him fit in at school and my sister is having trouble helping him through it due to hers.

Why are we so unworthy to you?

Are we not due the same courtesy of online treatment as those of different races and religion...or does that go out the window as you pay for us?

@MNHQ why is it acceptable for you to allow your users to bully the marginalised on this site?

I'm ill, enough so I received both enhanced care and mobility at my last PIP renewal without the need for even a phone call from the DWP or any of the companies that carry out assessments on their behalf. I'd give it up in a heartbeat to be healthy. It's around £200 a week, hardly a figure to get your knickers in a twist over.
Apart from PIP I receive no benefits. It isn't means tested. Looking at some of the posts recently I did wonder if they were written by a bot to put the boot into recipients of benefits or disabled people. None of them described how awful merely existing can be.
The OP I'm particularly thinking of was a single mum of two, outlining every penny she received from the state. This amounted to something around the equivalent of £62,500p.a. I stopped reading replies, but the OP seemed to have an air of faux naivety of what amounted to an extraordinary sum. She did this whilst giving just enough information about her ex to get the collective pearls of MN clutching because the NRP seemingly didn't contribute anything I'm CM either. I could have called house with the first few replies on my benefit bashing bingo card.
It completely glossed over what was likely a nightmare existence, one no rational person would envy. It did thist while emphasising an enormous figure that was nowhere near what the OP actually received. It seemed to be written in a way that would illicit responses giving the OP and anyone in receipt of any amount similar a good kicking. One poster put the boot in so much that she said she'd happily have a specific life threatening condition for (iirc) £2,500 a month. Fuck me that's nasty for anyone reading in that positionl.

It is just pathetic. We can spot the fibs a mile off.

@anotherside please could you refer to where you got this figure. I don’t think thats accurate,