The Attack on Disabled Lives in Sagamihara [CC]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- (TW: mentions of ableism and violence) #TsukuiYamyuriEn #DisabilitySolidarity #AbleismKills
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My written piece on the attack: Ableism, Mass Murder, and Silence by Annie Segarra bit.ly/2ajMMef
Other written pieces on the attack:
-Violence, Disability, and the Lessons of Sagamihara by David Perry bit.ly/2agKFUO
-This Is What Disability Erasure Looks Like by Emily Willingham bit.ly/2afpj0f
-ABLEISM, VIOLENCE & SAGAMIHARA by Alice Wong bit.ly/2ae5Vf3
-Japan knife attack: stabbing at care centre leaves 19 dead by Justin McCurry bit.ly/2au5WNU
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It's so fucked up that I hadn't even heard of this until I watched this video. I'd hope that if this had happened in the US, that we'd have heard a lot more about it. We Americans are bad at ignoring the violence that happens in other countries because that's sometimes more normal. We need to get better at that and at speaking up against all hate crimes, including those against people with disabilities.
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Exactly! I didn't know either
I'm still so shaken by the silence over this. I received very little commentary on this when I posted about it on facebook, yet when I posted out against the harmfulness of Me Before You, I had a ton of peers trying to defend it. Sad times.
I agree with you, When I said I didn't like the movie "me before you" people I knew were shocked, Which is ironic in many ways.....
And yes, teh defence of Me Before You is coupled with the silence on this and it is relevant.
Me Before You is the most ableist movie I have ever seen and when people ask me why I hate that movie I now point to the story about Japan and they start to get it a little. I would hope when people see this guy's rhetoric they see that there are people in this world who want us disabled peeps dead over a false sense of compassion to rid us of "Suffering"
Totally agree. Especially your comments about access to places. I am having a birthday lunch with a friend next week, but the restaurant I'd really like to have gone to isn't accessible to me and this time I'm actually not going to just be quiet and go elsewhere. I'm going to talk to the manager.... I hope he feels like crap firstly that he'll be meeting with me on the street outside! Then I want to give him the option to obtain a portable ramp, as some stores in my town already have. But that still leaves the issue of an accessible restroom.... so what, I must just get through a 2-3hr birthday lunch and it's tough luck if I need the loo? Totally unacceptable. Thanks for raising awareness of the terrible Japanese tragedy. Blessings to the survivors and all of the families affected 😢Great vid, lots to think about! xx
I'm the mother of a disabled daughter and I was thinking the same thing. The disabled are, in my opinion, the most marginalized and neglected of all people groups. I don't think it is far fetched to think that it is just a matter of time before doctors will decide whether people with disabilities are worthy of living or whether it is cost effective to allow them to live! It is devastatingly frightening! I found out about this incident yesterday and plan to write something about it on my blog and vlog about it soon.
And they do already. Euthanasia is always with us, however covert. The Netherlands, Switzerland, certain US states and covertly in the UK by simply pressuring all disabled women to have terminations. All pregnant women where any genetic anomaly is suspected or found are 'offered this choice' yet my disabled friends and parents of disabled kids all report refusal leads to pressure and threats. Just one UK case: ladycrookback.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/choice-is-optional/
Comparing the reaction to this to the reaction to Pulse is disturbing and illuminating. You're right to say activists usually treat disability as an afterthought or completely leave it out of the discussion. I think that feminist communities, of which I am a part, really, really need to get better about addressing disability, and just more intersectional in general. This is a really important video that needs to be shared. We have to talk about this.
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I also want to thank you. I am a newly disabled person who became that way due to a car wreck. it happened 2 years ago after I turned 40. I had had empathy for disabled people because I was around disabled people all my life but I never understood til it happened to me. I am a T-6 complete and I suffered a mild TBI. I have had AD/HD since I was 4 so I had never counted that. Today something ticked me off bad and I decided to do a channel that tells what I go through daily. first I started researching and found you. I started watching your videos and came across this one and I am steamed (not at you but about how disabled people are treated) I did share it on fb and I hope it gets noticed. the fact is you are very talented and you have now really confirmed that I need to speak out too. thank you for being brave and doing this.
It surprised me to hear that you guys weren't aware of this incident in America. over here (UK) it's been all over the news since it happened.
bink h I'm wondering if this is partly because the US has a more...intense history of legalized eugenics. It's probably not as shocking of a news story over here.
Unfortunately in America we have Fake News. They only care about what is "Popular" and they only care about what makes them Money and high Ratings.
The most I'd heard about this was 30 second blurbs on the news and the brief mention Phillip Defranco did on Tuesday (which was great, but he didn't talk about it any deeper than the details of what happened and calling it "scary"). As someone who has Aspergers, I was terrified and angry when I heard the news. It's bad enough that Autism Speaks demonizes the symptoms people like me deal with under the guise of "helping" us. Now, when someone openly admits he committed a hate crime against us, no one actually does anything to help. I feel like no one wants to listen.
Marina Watanabe retweeted your video and I could not believe I haven't heard of this news at all. I'm deeply frustrated and angered by the lack of response. This is shocking. I could not believe that this kind of radical thinking still exist. People with disabilities, are still people, they have their rights and they deserve to have dignity. I may not be part of the community of persons with disability, but I stand by you.
I'm not from the US but I hope that by sharing your video, I will be able to help in making people more aware of the rights of people with disabilities.
Thank you! You know, I have not heard ONE person say this? NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON IN MY NEWSFEED! Thank you, asthelilygrows.
Thank you so much for making this video. I feel like the disabled have less value to many AB people whether they admit it to themselves or not. They say that it's about "quality of life", as if my life is of less value because I can't do whatever you feel like makes life worthwhile. I think that's why it's hard to find coverage or outrage over this
Spot on! The basis of the Euthanasia law in the Netherlands is based on just that, the physician's determination of 'quality of life'.
+Rebecca Mary Stell sad but true
Thank you so much for making this event known. It is horrid that that man's mindset exists, and that he carried out this horrifying string of murders and assults. I've seen people I love infantilized once others realize they aren't as able as previously thought, and it is so, so important that we talk about this axis of oppression.
So much here, Kathy! And that infantilism can happen even if we prove our abilities but means in effect we have to keep 'coming out' as intelligent. I have heard people tell me that they have every right to start from the assumption that a person in a wheelchair has low cognitive ability because they can raise their game if that person turns out to be more intelligent than their prejudice assumed. However, such a person - and there are many- who need to be told to respect disabled people will never regain _our_ respect for their own intellectual ability! And what for those of us who DO have intellectual disabilities or brain injuries? I have physical disabilities, mild learning difficulties (as understood by UK measurement) additional brain injury and memory problems due to my tumour and its medications AND two degrees and more to say than most folk I know!
Speaking of intersectional identity, and queerness I've had the weird experience on a forum recently when discussing how to approach and flirt with a girl I have just met where others were discussing how bi women who are married and have bi accepting husbands who don't quibble at them having girlfriends handle the issue, I mentioned I have a flatmate who is also my ex and my P.A. (long story) I was flabbergasted to be met with comments to the effect that no potential date should be expected to trust me because I would look like a pick up artist for my ex because of my disability - because exploiting disabled women is common in the USA apparently. The layers of assumption about what having a P.A./carer means, what 'disability' is assumed to mean in relation to vulnerability were shocking and dented my confidence in the good will of said group!" This wasn't much improved when having to cancel and reschedule drew me into talk demonstrating that Potential Date might not see me as some sort of risk to her (the idea that I might be a lure but that she evidently saw me, on no basis as an inspo crip based on being cheerful and upbeat- at Pride!
It might seem off topic but it all has a bearing on how society views us as worthy or unworthy and how those models of thought shape our lives.
So glad you talked about this topic. Hardly anyone knows about it. It's crazy. I truly believe that the disability movement is last civil rights movement in the world that is still not getting enough attention!
I hadn't heard about this until this video. How is this not at the front of the news? How is no one outside of the disabled community- as you mentioned- talking about this? I don't understand how we can raise our voices and shout our opinions when it comes to equality of men and women yet when it comes to human equality we don't shout twice as loud. Great video thank you for giving this hate crime- because that's what this was- to our attention.
I've seen 0 articles from the news in all of my social feeds and really haven't seen anything about it at all! I'm going to share this video so hopefully more people will know about it!
Thank you for all that you do Annie!
This video was a real eye opener for me. Can't believe such a heinous act could be carried out with no response in the media. Will definitely make a conscious effort to seek out and listen to disabled people and their stories. Thank you for this video.
I was enraged over the tragedy and me being on the autism spectrum makes me a target for such murder sprees.
I had heard about it but it wasn't explained as a hate crime which it clearly is. Which is incredibly frustrating. I'm glad I've started following you and other disabled youtubers because otherwise I would be ignorant of it.
Beyond what I understand you to mean by intersectionality--as in finding common ground between disability advocacy, LGBTQ concerns, feminist movements, etc. etc.--there's also a question of national boundaries and language. In talking about the reporting on Pulse, you say "the world showed up." While that was certainly the case in the US and Europe from what I saw on Facebook, at the time I was in Tokyo and I saw very limited mentions of it on the news. I think I remember seeing a few images on a friend's page of an event in Tokyo related to Pulse, but I don't think there was much public awareness about it aside from the general question of why Americans still allow general access to guns. Similarly, I heard about this knife attack primarily from Japanese friends, and primarily (though not exclusively) from Japanese language sources. I think what this points to is the remaining difficulty of crossing geographic and linguistic boundaries. For all that the internet has done to allow faster exchanges of information, we still tend to think and respond within the frameworks of national identities and news that is seen as "local" in some sense is still slow to be translated. This is a serious challenge for movements, like disability advocacy, that are not unique to a specific geographic location. But its important to find ways to cross such borders because part of the way disability rights can be ignored by society is by positing it as so marginal as to be unworthy of our time, a misperception that is reinforced by the partitioning created by borders. By building bridges across countries, cultures, and languages, it becomes clear how common these issues are, and how central they are to the well being of society. The conclusion I come to is that, since news organizations are unlikely to start translating and circulating such information on their own, it becomes the burden of the movements themselves to engage in practices of translation, and build transnational networks that can disseminate this information in greater detail and with greater speed.
Agreed on the language and cultural barrier but this silence is also very much because a majority of non disabled people believe in the right to physician assisted suicide and to engage with the fears with disability communities or friends from that community. Discussion of the dangers of eugenic thinking with disabled people it seems threatens their own sense that people who currently have all choices at their fingertips could be denied a quick death when in fact it is we -the disabled- who are often denied the right to treatment, life and autonomy.
THANK YOU! People never seem to understand why I am completely against assisted suicide as a disabled person. As far as I am concerned if you are for assisted suicide you are against the rights of the disabled. Furthermore people who are minority races are much more likely to be told assisted suicide is an option or falsely diagnosed as brain dead.
Most people think and say they would rather be dead than be a fraction as disabled as I am.
That's a psychological hurdle disabled people have overcome in finding inner acceptance of our own limitations. It's a challenge; one could say it might entail the 'stages of grief' (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance).
So when I hear voices (in the media, on a bus) speaking of disability as unacceptable for them, I know they are not understanding. People vastly underestimate their resilience.
When the public understands the above, they will understand how unhelpful messages are which implicitly equate disability with death.
Thank you very much, Annie, for letting people know about the recent insane attack. (I believe Japanese cultural values around productivity might have helped create this tragedy.)
At the risk of stirring up the pot, I wanted to talk frankly about a number of issues you brought up.
Many people don't see humans with mental disabilities as fully people. Consider the case of Terri Schiavo. She had severe brain damage due to lack of oxygen caused by cardiac arrest. She was in a persistent vegetative state for 8 years when her husband, sued to have the feeding tube removed. They had tried everything and he felt it was time to let her go. This became a massive case that I'm sure you have all heard about. Many people fell on both sides. Some felt that it was immoral to end any human life. Others felt that what made her human was her ability to think, feel, and to appreciate life. Therefore she was no longer a person, but just a body.
Disabilities exist on a spectrum from persistent vegetative state to full cognition. Where people from the second camp above draw the line varies. I don't think physical disabilities are as discriminated against as mental ones.
As a separate note, I think BNL07604 was exactly correct about lack of coverage because no
Americans were involved. We rarely hear about atrocities that don't
directly affect Americans unless it fits an ongoing narrative.
A curious side note:
I thought it was interesting that you didn't like how people treated you like a child, yet children are absolutely people. Nobody advocates the killing of children because they are less people. So it's not that they aren't treating you like a person, it's that they aren't treating you with respect.
Damn it has lots of triggers. Yes made me crying. Thank you, Annie for speaking out. It's not easy to be a deaf person living in society. Thank you again.
I feel the same way. I agree with u 100 %.
I'm native American and when something happens in our community, nobody here's about it. it's not on the news. nothing. we only here it n our community...
:-( That's damning and damnable, Nicole. I gathered so much but :-(
The problem I see with the "solidarity," if one can call it that, in the wake of the Pulse tragedy was that there was an agenda to push. The shooter could be cast as the "Muslim menace," and even the people that hate us in the LGBTQIA+ community could get behind calling for more fighting. It could be repurposed for the nationalist push. So, we see more discussion. Unfortunately, what happened here can't be used for the same reason, and also many of them agree that we are disposable. A burden. It's evident by the silence.. When I shared a breaking news article about what happened on my page, it was seen.. But that's where it ended. No interactions, no sharing of information, it was just a dead end, and that scares me. The people we need to listen just don't. We are taboo, and not viewed as worth the time to engage in and help. It's maddening, and I hate that we are the only ones talking about this.. There's an awful lot of discussion about eugenics in all areas of the political spectrum, and it's not always obvious, but it's still there, and so many agree with it.. Perspectives aid us in progress. Looking down on us, ignoring us, and wishing we no longer existed isn't a solution, and won't help this world go anywhere.. :(
True. all so true. All I wanted to say too. Some of which is also reflected here ladycrookback.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/choice-is-optional/
Annie, It's now been almost a week, and like you, I have only seen and heard about this via the disability community. I just did a search and STILL cannot find any names of the victims. It's so hard (as you understand) to be disabled and something like this happen and have NO ONE say anything. I'm at the point where I can signal boost, but I just can't blog about it myself. It's so devastating. Sending love your way. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I know it can't have been easy and it is raising a lot of awareness.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I wouldn't have heard about this any other way. I shared this on my facebook and made it public so it could be shared.
this is such an important video, thank you for this
Older vid but the thing that blew my mind was the fact that very few people cared and it was only covered on international media for a day.
I was not aware of this happening, my heart hurts to hear such news. Thank you for informing me on this.
This video shows how I thought about this situation (especially about the silence/lack of awareness of this tragedy) xx
you are awesome. this video is really important. thank you for that. that is all
wonderfully spoken, I've subscribed, looking forward to watching more from you
Spoons back atcha. I missed it too. Now I know and will comment/post/share about it. I'm so grateful that Hillary Clinton included disability in her speech. It may be lip service, but at least it's not mocking like the other major candidate.
Thank you for bring this up.
Hugh, better to know about this later than never. Thank you for putting this out.
I've told these same words you told on this video to some gay acquaintances but yeah well, nobody heard. "equality" only seems right for them.
Thanks again for putting it out there.
I was linked to this from FeministFridays. I didn't hear about this tragedy until this morning. I also realized that while some of my youtubers that I subscribe to do talk about their specific mental ailments and mental health, none of them really make it their focus. So thank you for your critique it did illuminate an issue that I should know more about. Unrelated: who is the Funko Pop doll you have in the bottom right corner of your screen? The character looks interesting.
Am I welcome here? I subscribed, I'm on a journey to find others like you, as I first watched Tommys videos Then Mollys videos, The Rikkis videos and Thoughts Rikki is how I found you. It is good for me to find others involved with certain quality's to surround myself with, because I feel those with qualities are important to know respectively. sending my love 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘.
Wow I haven't heard this it all. Thanks for sharing.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I honestly think it was because Americans were not involved. I know how that sounds, but it's either American involvement OR a shooting in Canada. Perhaps I'm being naive, but that's how I see the news nowadays. But yeah..."horrendous" doesn't even begin to describe this. Thanks for shedding light on this.
I think you're right.
I'm not so sure about that. I live in Europe and even though both attacks were in the news, after the Orlando shooting there were rainbows everywhere and the victims were honored at several prides. I haven't seen anything like that happening for the Tsukui Lily Garden victims.
Thank you for making this video. I live in Japan and it's been on the news a lot. However, they are focusing more on the killer rather than what he did, and that bothers me.
Well said! There is no coverage from a disability perspective except by disabled people as many others have said.
I just learned about a few minutes ago and it is breaking my heart.
I've thought about this a lot. I think the reason we haven't been able to get noticed as much as other marginalised groups is because it's the most diverse group. Not only is disability diverse in intersetionality, it's also the most diverse in how disability is defined. I have CP, but at the moment I can walk completely unassisted (this was not the case growing up, and may not be the case in the future) as a result, I sometimes feel like an imposter, like I'm not disabled enough to be in this community, but I'm also too disabled to be considered "normal." Add to the diversity the fact that people like infantilise us- kids don't have a say. Some advocacy groups have been completely taken over by non-affected voices (looking at you, Autism Speaks). Also, in my experience, the other marginalised groups want you to essentially wait for a turn. They got there first, and if too many ask for rights at once, it ruins it for everyone (such seems to be the thinking)
And because so many non disabled people agree with 'the right to die/assisted dying' euthanasia to the point of being prepared to override our right to life/assisted living. I also have CP and despite being mostly ambulant and 'mild' as the medical model sees things, I can tell of the many times folk have hinted to me face to face that all of us are better off dead. Boyfriends, parents, relatives 'friends', trolls you name it. And my experience of pregnancy and being told to terminate by a prejudiced Dr then discovering it is NHS policy to 'offer' this in all cases where the parent or foetus has or may have a disability. I refused and was then _ordered_ to "Come back when you have made the right decision". My experience and taht of friends with CP and other disabilities is such that I live for the moment in case someone takes the law into their own hands!
+Rebecca Mary Stell one that I get all the time that always baffles me is the 'You're such an inspiration! *gag* followed almost immediately by, 'if it were me, I'd be dead already!'
I'm currently in the UK studying for my masters, and while the UK is far from perfect, in some ways I think people with disabilities are treated better here than in the states. It's easier to access public transportation (most places in the states have NONE- something that worries me going back, because I can't drive yet) and people seem less inclined to come up to me on the street and tell me how to fix myself or to pray for me (I'm from the southern US- I'm told it doesn't happen as much in the north)
The program in my state that would have helped me get hand controls was cut- so I have to pay for it all myself, or move to a high cost city like New York for transit.
The US doesn't even make currency notes different sizes for those who are blind. I don't understand why. I'm sighted, and I find it useful!
If it's of any consolation, it did make the news here in Spain and I thought it was bloody awful. :( It makes me sick to the stomach
Yes yes yes! I honestly was upset that not many people at all were talking about this. it wasn't even a trending topic on Facebook or Twitter. why does it seem as if disabled lives don't even matter? it's rather unsettling to be honest.
I know it happens all the time people talk to me like I'm an infant it's annoying or sometimes I'm treated like I have no idea what I'm talking about
i feel so bad. i had no idea this happened :(
I'm disabled, and I sometimes get genuinely angry at other civil rights movements because they get so much more attention. I know I'm being petty, but why do places that advertise their diversity and acceptance make it difficult for me just to enter their buildings?
totally sick! What is wrong with humanity? I am so sad.
I don't know what to say about it, but yeah, it is shocking that this is practically not even being reported. I don't know what to say about it. The things I know about this came from you and other disabled Twitterers (Twitterlings?) But considering the things I hear on a daily basis online, on tv, in real life, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
wow, no words
wow um i am even more scared for my life.
○ 5 days. That's how long it took for me to see any social media posts related to this attack from people/pages who weren't disabled. The only exception being news sites that over-simplified the story (because what abled person was gonna read more than a paragraph about it?), and none of them used the words "hate crime" or "ableism." It took 5 days for me to see abled people share a fully accurate version of the story and call it an ableist hate crime. It took cishets about 5 hours to talk about Pulse, Orlando and call it a homophobic hate crime. It took under 12 hours for there to be a trending hashtag. In 24 hours, there was a Facebook profile picture filter. ●
□ And all this happened shortly after I'd spent many days arguing (nearly non-stop) that disabled people deserve access to Pokemon Go, and being told, repeatedly, that no, we don't. I was told it's 100% fair we can't play. Because it's not worth the effort to make a few minor changes that would allow a lot of us to play. Because video games are not a legal right so it's fine to keep disabled people from playing them. Because the game just requires high physical ability to play, and there's nothing wrong with that. Because making the game far more fair to disabled players would be slightly unfair to abled players, so of course we can't do that. □
◇ Basically a bunch of "reasons" that boil down to this: There's nothing wrong with excluding people from activities because they're disabled. Abled people shouldn't have to suffer minor inconveniences JUST to fix major inaccessibility for disabled people. Abled people are just more important than disabled people, and their needs matter more. We don't care about disabled people. Disabled people just don't matter. I was sent hate messages over this. Disgusting hate messages. Really. For saying Pokemon Go should be more accessible and defending + clarifying my position when people disagreed. In addition to all the super ableist comments and replies to my posts, of course. For reasons I don't want to get into, all of that was really triggering. And like I said, it went on for over a week. It sent me into a dark place that I was JUST coming out of when this happened. After 10(ish) days straight of being constantly told disabled people just don't matter, somebody went and killed a bunch of us, and said he wanted to kill all of us. He even warned the fucking government about what he was going to do, with specifics about his plan, and they did absolutely nothing. ◆
☆ I went back into that dark place, but this time it was pitch black. I was waiting for support and love to bring me out of it. I was waiting for the world to shout in unison that disabled people do matter. I was waiting for a world that I could share my outrage with, without being told my outrage is uncalled for or unnecessary. I was waiting. I was waiting. I am still fucking waiting. ★
you want to know what's annoying about the word "cute"? i have been told by girls that i'm cute but not because they want to date me but because they think that look like a kid just because i'm in a wheelchair,you're so right about society they think we don't matter
IDK why people are crying over this not being talked about. Like what?
You are talking about it now
And it's pretty public too?