disability, lynchings, accusations of pedophilia

[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.