Petition Make hate speech against disabled people a criminal offence.

"Disableism" and discrimination based on your physical or cognitive ability has long been both unacceptable socially and legislatively. However, verbal abuse is often the start of such discrimination and has for too long been left as "colloquial" or dismissed as "slang" . It is time for this to end

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Children and young people who have additional needs are more likely to end up in a youth offending programme, less likely to have their mental health needs taken seriously and more likely to be lower earners. Our society disadvantages those with any form of disability in subtle ways. Verbal abuse, the use of words that are as insulting to disabled people as the worst racist abuse, are demonstrative of underlying social acceptance of this discrimination. We need to take a stand, make this not just socially unacceptable but criminal.

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Date closed 12 June 2019
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