People realise and acknowledge that the government and media make the lives of disabled people difficult and miserable but what they don't take into consideration that it makes our role as carers equally stressful.
Our role tends to be a firewall, standing between a vicious ideologically driven coalition, the media, and people who have fallen for the anti-disabled propaganda tactics used by all of them.
The Huffington Post is the latest "newspaper" to allow disabled people bashing, but they have included a neat twist on things. Their disability basher is Simon Stevens. He is know to many online campaigners for his vile attacks on people who defend the government's cuts to disability benefits. If you show him proof that someone has taken their own life because of cuts to disability benefits he calls them "Nazis" or "murderers".
He also defends Atos, who almost everyone knows is a government driven disability denying organisation, but he would defend them because he has or is working for them as can be seen here.
I asked the Huffington Post for a right of reply to some of the more disturbing and offensive piece he has done for them. But like the Daily Mail, the Sun etc it seems like the HF only allows people to reply if it suits their 'agenda'.
The Huffington Post defends Simon Stevens right to attack disabled people with impunity.
There is no balance except for when the dull and boring Owen Jones chips in to speak up for people on benefits. But that's the thing, Jones isn't disabled or a carer to my knowledge, so why the hell should he be speaking for us? Carers and disabled people can speak for themselves, it's just that the media aren't listening to anyone that doesn't fit into their neat little boxes.
Huffington Post still won't allow a right of reply to someone that thinks he is the only disabled person worthy of disability benefits and that everyone else is workshy or a scrounger.
Why anyone takes that online rag seriously while it maintains the governments stereotypes is laughable. It has failed disabled people and carers in the same way the government has.
So stop making carers jobs harder by piling the shit Simon Stevens shovels onto the people we care for
