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Society has taken great strides to secure the equal rights of minority groups, and though we've run into some stumbling blocks along the way, we like to think we're doing a reasonably good job. But there's one minority group whose pleas for equality have gone depressingly unheard: disabled people. It's a fairly wide umbrella, one that includes a variety of both physical and mental conditions. Depending on your disability, it's still perfectly legal in America to screw you over in a fabulous myriad of ways. For example ...
5: Disabled Americans Are Being Murdered By Their Caregivers
Like most minorities, the disabled make up a disproportionate amount of the victims of violence and murder. In the U.S., a disabled person is deliberately killed by their caretaker (usually a family member) around once a week on average, totaling 219 cases in the last five years. Even worse, the media will frequently side with the killer. For some reason, society at large has decided that murdering disabled people falls into some kind of moral "grey area," around the level of whether or not vegetarians can eat fish.