Thread by @Inadarkwood

You know, the ableds often look at me suspiciously when I say disabled people's lives have been valued as less than in the pandemic. Well, here's it is, in black and white. Lord Sumption saying on the bloody BBC that disabled lives are 'less valuable.'

https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1350762750327271424

That's how mainstream and accepted rampant ableism is. There it is, on the BBC, for all to see. Meanwhile disabled people have been asked by their GPs to sign DNR's. Disabled people are tired, folks.

Here is a transcript of the video, as there's no captions:

Host: Deborah, I'm sure you'll want to come in here on what Lord Sumption has said, the valuation of life.

Deborah: With all due respect, Lord Sumption, I'm the person who you say their life is not valuable. I live with metastatic bowel cancer.

Lord Sumption: I didn't say it wasn't valuable, I said it was less valuable.