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On the recordJuly 9, 2025
Disability discrimination is 'most often the product, not of invidious animus, but rather of thoughtlessness and indifference—of benign neglect.'
Said by
Sonia Sotomayor
New York
Source
slate.com

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Justice Sotomayor noted that discrimination often arises from neglect rather than malice.

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