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Originally Posted by Hugh
To clarify - it appears that no matter what the posting topic, you will eventually raise disability as part of the conversation.
This may not be intentional, but it is seen as inevitable.
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Thanks for explaining what was meant Hugh. The subject of those in (or not in) the protected groups being trolled online is the salient subject of this thread. The protected group that i'm in is that related to disability as that is the one that I have direct experience of, so it's inevitable that I'll be able to relate to that more than any of the others, even though I do endeavour to understand and support others.
The unpleasant way that I'm treated and spoken to by a small group of other people must be related to disabilith discrimination as that's the only thing that separates me apart from other members.
These days it's socially unacceptable to be directly racist, ableist, homophobic etc also, people tend to incorrectly think that they can skirt round the law by being unpleasant or downright nasty to those in the protected groups, so long as their disability/race/gender etc is not directly mentioned.
I can't remember which thread it was, but as an example one individual recently tried the age old 'nobody likes you' routine. It really was schoolboy stuff designed to alienate, isolate and upset.
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