Disability hate on MN

[IClaudine]

Hi MNHQ

Since Sunak’s announcement on disability benefits, there has been a big increase on MN in hostility towards people who receive then.

The abuse, hate and outright lies (my neighbour’s son’s cousin’s wife climbs Mount Everest but gets PIP etc) being spewed on MN towards disabled people, a group with protected characteristics, has been dreadful and very distressing for disabled people and their loved ones to read,

Please can you do something?

Here is a small selection of the threads where the disability benefit bashers have paid a visit and had a field day. There may be more, but I can’t face searching for them!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5064828-to-be-terrified-about-pip?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share  

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5065470-people-who-work-have-anxiety-too?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5066670-aibu-to-hope-that-able-bodied-people-will-support-disabled-people-against-the-tory-attack-on-pip?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/money-matters/5064856-pip-vouchers-to-replace-money?reply=134966246&utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/money-matters/5066331-do-you-feel-bad-for-receiving-a-high-amount-of-uc?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

The fact that this thread was started nearly two years ago and nothing has changed speaks volumes.

I reported a thread copied and pasted from Robert Jenrick's Facebook page. Totally disingenuous and falsely used by an OP pretending to be the originator of the 'thoughts'. That was left to run despite one of the reporting categories being 'not a genuine poster'.

On the Scottish Reform voting website there have been multiple references to 'genuine disability'. I am sure this doesn't meet a deletion threshold , even though it is clear ableism.

@Piggywaspushedive just reported two posts on the one thread, they’re benefit bashing and laughing at fatties, they’re both still standing

I reported a post recently for benefit bashing which was deleted but then reinstated for some reason.

I have just reported a thread that has descended into really disgusting, dehumanising benefit bashing. Let's see what happens.