Fergus Finlay: Time to loudly proclaim Disability Lives Matter

We’ve made such progress in ending discrimination in Ireland in recent years. But still, there is one group of people left out. All these years later, disability live still don’t matter.
Fergus Finlay: Time to loudly proclaim Disability Lives Matter

Neil Jacobson, Judith Heumann, director and producer Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht, and Denise
Jacobson at the premiere of ‘Crip Camp’ during the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Utah.

Disability Lives Matter. I wonder how that would work as a slogan? Would anyone, I wonder, be offended, the way some people are when they hear the phrase Black Lives Matter?

You hear it again and again, don’t you, the question 'why are you singling out black people?' What about the fact that all lives matter? What about women, what about children, what about people of a different colour? What about, what about, what about?

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