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" In 2016, a Japanese man who was outspoken in his belief that all people with disabilities should be euthanized massacred nineteen disabled people and injured twenty-six at an institution in Sagamihara, Japan. Four years later, the victims still haven’t been publicly named—reportedly out of respect for their families, who wished to avoid the stigma that comes with having disabled family members. "

Alice Wong , Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century


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Alice  Wong quote : In 2016, a Japanese man who was outspoken in his belief that all people with disabilities should be euthanized massacred nineteen disabled people and injured twenty-six at an institution in Sagamihara, Japan. Four years later, the victims still haven’t been publicly named—reportedly out of respect for their families, who wished to avoid the stigma that comes with having disabled family members.