General Discussion

I've posted a particularly relative paragraph.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/mar/27/us-disability-rights-trump

Historically, the way a government treats disabled people can be an early indicator of its broader social policy intentions.

For instance, disabled people are the proverbial canary in the coal mine with respect to the effects of global climate change.

“Disabled and older people face significant barriers during these disasters, such as the inability to evacuate … or [access] important information,” said the MacArthur Fellow and Disability Visibility author Alice Wong via email. “As someone who is ventilator dependent, power outages are a concern during storms or wildfires that trigger rolling blackouts. I am privileged enough to have some backup batteries but they would not last more than one to two days. I guffaw when federal and state agencies give advice such as preparing a go bag and stocking extra medications because that is simply out of reach for many disabled people.”
(In 1933 Germany) a law called for compulsory sterilization of those with “hereditary diseases” including deafness, blindness, schizophrenia, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, chronic alcoholism and a host of other conditions. A 1935 expansion of the law required mandatory abortions on the fetus of a parent with one of the listed conditions. Approximately 400,000 disabled people were sterilized in Germany and annexed territories during this period.