Man with learning disabilities dies after years of abuse

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Another gut-wrenching, sickening case of a vulnerable person with learning disabilities, abused and tormented for years in his neighbourhood in Manchester, ending in his death this week.

AIBU to think that to describe the sort of abuse that this man suffered (and so many others - disability hate-crime is rife), as 'anti-social behaviour', exposes just how little regard disablism has in society. Why isn't it referred to as 'hate crime'?

Would it be called anti-social behaviour if it was persistent, decades-long racist or homophobic abuse? Would those who perpetrated the abuse, be allowed to stay in the neighbourhood and continue to abuse this man? I suspect not.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8561513.stm

I am ashamed that my children will be growing up in a world with scum like this, that poor man

This has infuriated me, because what kind of people allow their kids to persistently be abusive to a disabled person or any person for that matter?

little shits