I'm seeing a lot of talk from disabled people fearing being put into concentration camps and at the same time, I'm seeing a lot of talk of people calling those fears dramatic.
I was one of the people back in July raising alarm bells over RFK Jr wanting to put neurodivergent and disabled people into camps but I realized something a while back and it's important to understand.
They don't need to put us into camps.
All they have to do is take away healthcare and assistance access as well as the laws that give us civil rights. That's enough to destroy disabled lives and kill us.
They're already doing that. The medicaid cuts. The section 504 lawsuit. The deia attacks. The make America health again EO. The discussion of slow rolling social security and social security office cuts. The healthcare research cuts. The food aid program cuts.
They don't need to round us up. Removing the safeguards that allow us to live and function does that job a lot easier and cheaper.
The same way they do it with other subjects, they're softening up people to it by musk calling people using assistance parasites, trump blaming disabled folks for the DC plane crash, trump saying his disabled nephew didn't deserve to live, the make America healthy again EO demonizing chronic illness and neurodivergency. And so on and on.
I'm not saying this to scare people. Someone on a disability group tonight said "if they were going to do it, there would be warning signs." The warnings are already happening! Alarms should be going off in your head. We are in it. So I'm saying this so people are aware of it. So that they are paying attention to it because we all need to fight like hell against it.
