Maybe because they aren’t so happy in their jobs and they look at people on disability as making an excuse not to work and living the life of Riley
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I have so much hate for my disability pension…
Market every day,cause once asked for discount as pensioner…
I know that’s not ok,one dummy cashier mentioned out loud here we got one young pensioner…
Then woman behind me asked why I’m on disability …
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I think many people forget that, anyone, from one day to the next could have a disabling condition that prevents them from working. Maybe people are afraid of acknowledging this fact within themselves and recognizing how vulnerable we all really are and how fragile our physical and mental health actually is.
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I promise you I’d rather be able to work. I worked for years. I’d had a job in some form from the time I was 15.
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Why do people hate those on disability? Basically because of what people are fed by a predominantly right wing MSM. Those on low incomes are brainwashed/manipulated to believe that the disabled are the problem. It’s absolute, thoroughly dishonest, crap.
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In fairness, it’s tough to work your promontory off day in and day out, have to choose between rent and groceries or utilities, and then see someone in a cheap/free flat with their grocery bill covered by others going on a vacation that you can’t afford. Can you blame someone who is low income for being upset over this?
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It could also have something to do with people having congruent ideas with their adaptive behaviors, ie have attitudes congruent with working all day and paying your way and against others such as disabled who dont
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In equal fairness it’s the bosses not the disabled that pay those people crap wages. The disabled should not be blamed for the greed of very well off employers. Having said that I can see how some low wage earners may easily fall for such propaganda.
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I am prevented from sharing my view on this topic in the way that I wanted to contribute
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I’ve gone as far as I can go.
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You’re assuming low-wage people have choices. They don’t. It’s that or starve on the streets.
I have been disabled and on assistance and I have been working poor. The latter was the more difficult of the two, and that is taking forced hospitalizations for being full on whack-a-doodle with positive symptoms into account.
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In the way you’re talking I don’t disagree about that lack of choice. However that’s very different from buying into the dishonesty and immorality that scapegoats the disabled and/or vulnerable for such an unsatisfactory state of affairs.
Whether you buy into the reality of something or not, it doesn’t change the fact that you have to pay for 100% of getting your own teeth fixed while knowing others get that service gratis, in part through your taxes. That hurts.
I am just explaining the reason for the bruised feelings. They’re legit.
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here in the US and the part I growed up in people hated on people with disabilities receiving social security because they have better healthcare than they do while work in their nine to five job and sometimes not seeking heathcare because they’re underinsured despite working full-time of course that isn’t people on disabilities fault.
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Ive never heard from people that earn lower wages blame disabled people for that. Usually capitalism gets the blame.
But as we know in some parts of europe some disabled folks are better taken care of than low wage earners and that can be difficult to accept. Im not sure that is as common in north america.
If it was id be on disability right now lol.
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I was happier when I was working and didnt have health issues
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If that was the case in America, I would be sipping on not alcoholic pina coladas right now.
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Nice political discussion legitimizing working class conservative viewpoints as a disability thread
Its just the classic rightist tactic. They have working people by the balls, and use media and all sorts to convince them that the disabled and poorer people are the ones to blame for all their financial hardships. It used to be Jews, then it was blacks, then it was Indians and the Irish. These days, its those unable to work who are the problem for other hard-up folk. Anyone will do, other than the Government, that is. Are there people who abuse the system? Yes. But you get that in the working sectors also at all levels, and no one really cares about that. There are also those who need disability and other benefits and get next to nothing, due to their circumstances, and generally people also dont care about that. So it shows that the discrimination and attitude is not consistent. Thus, it means people are being manipulated into a particular narrative.
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Maybe 20 years ago. Definitely not now. In Alberta we’ll have six people on AISH crammed into a one bedroom apartment and they still can’t afford groceries.
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