disability, lynchings, accusations of pedophilia

[denuseri]

My issue is the author of the article appears to being drawing analogies to suit his own needs without supplying any real data to support his claims outside of where it suited his intended purpose.

The fact is anyone publicly accused of or convicted of these types of crimes becomes a potential target of retribution not just people with disabilities.

The author clearly tries to spin things to seem as if all disabled people are being falsely targeted for accusation/conviction of sex crimes in the article referenced because they are disabled as if that's the root of the issue. This in my mind seems false when anyone regardless of their disability status would be targeted by society.

Was there a trial or not where the individuals were found guilty?

Is their a higher percentage of offenders or accused who suffer exo-judicial reciprocity that are disabled as opposed to not?

[leo9]

Is their a higher percentage of offenders or accused who suffer exo-judicial reciprocity that are disabled as opposed to not?

The point of the article was to assert this. If you have reason to believe it's untrue, by all means check his sources.

[denuseri]

The point of the article was to assert this. If you have reason to believe it's untrue, by all means check his sources.

Really ....it seems to me as if the article was trying to make it seem as if the disabled were being targeted because of their disability status alone...which naturally one would think should raise the question of how those claims hold up comparative to other non-disabled people accused/convicted of the same crimes.

[Thorne]

Really ....it seems to me as if the article was trying to make it seem as if the disabled were being targeted because of their disability status alone...which naturally one would think should raise the question of how those claims hold up comparative to other non-disabled people accused/convicted of the same crimes.

That is exactly what the article seems to be claiming. Note that it says many of these incidents involve lynchings by so-called "friends". And the article also implies that these claims do NOT hold up, when they are investigated. The problem is that the disabled victim is already dead or injured before any investigation is done. Like the witch hunts of the past (and even present, in some countries!) just the suspicion of wrongdoing is enough to make some people respond with violence. It's basically the old in-group vs out-group thing. Us against them. And the less "they" are like "us", the more of a threat they appear to be.

Even in a civilized world we are not far from our animal roots.

[thir]

The author clearly tries to spin things to seem as if all disabled people are being falsely targeted for accusation/conviction of sex crimes in the article referenced because they are disabled as if that's the root of the issue. This in my mind seems false when anyone regardless of their disability status would be targeted by society.

Was there a trial or not where the individuals were found guilty?

Is their a higher percentage of offenders or accused who suffer exo-judicial reciprocity that are disabled as opposed to not?

Now that the link is (finally) there, I hope things will become clearer.

The header is a question: Did Bijan Ebrahimi's disability incite the 'paedophile'-chasing lynch mob?

There are two issues here: hate crimes towards disabled people (which is a fact) and hate crimes against people suspected of pedophilia (which is also a fact). Are these two entwined here, so that some hate crimes towards disabled people are committed with the excuse of them being child molesters?

No trials Denuseri, we are talking murders of people who never went to trial, and in some cases were never accused either.

As for the last question, it sounds like it, but not proven. Possibly because two hates combine.