Please stop excluding disabled people in your posts about minorities who are being affected by the election results. Disabled people in the US are being affected too and we matter.
And, no, we’re not just upset because Trump mocked that reporter. I mean, sure, I do think that was immature and petty of him, but that’s not the worst thing he has done to the disability community or the worst thing we’re scared of. We’re a lot more upset that Trump has shown himself to be basically hostile to disability rights. For example, he keeps getting sued for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act even though he has to know by now that it’s always a LOT cheaper (less than 1 percent of the building cost) if you integrate accessibility features into a building if you start at the design phase, before you even start digging the hole. It only becomes expensive if you try to ignore your legal obligations under the ADA until you get sued and are forced by the courts to go back and literally have to tear part of the building down and redo it. But he keeps on defying the ADA anyway, than blaming people with disabilities for being “anti business” when we’re just trying to get into the building so we can do all the same things that everyone else in the building is doing. So we’re worried that he will try to find ways to undermine the ADA and its values of equality and inclusion in society, and worried that he will continue to perpetuate misconceptions about what the ADA actually does and doesn’t require and why it matters. Many disabled people also worry that he will sabotage Obama Care so that people with disabilities will lose a lot of the crucial care supports they NEED for daily survival. Please stop leaving us out and start educating yourself about the real issues affecting people with disabilities. One good place to start is in Twitter under the hashtag #CripTheVote, or do a web search for Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility project (I can’t link to it on my little bitty phone)