The Media, Liberal and Otherwise Wants Tomas Young to Kill Himself

Last week I wrote the following on this blog about journalist Chris Hedges' post on Truthdig concerning the decision by paralyzed veteran Tomas Young to end his life–a decision that Hedges doesn't question and which is being spread across news outlets without interrogation. That a depressed, disillusioned, and paralyzed veteran would chose to end his life seems "right" to liberal commentators because in point of fact they haven't examined their assumptions about disability and the actual living of disability lives:

via www.planet-of-the-blind.com

I think the Pope's decision to kiss a man with a disability is a minor infraction compared to this story.

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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