When Baynton states, “Disability has functioned historically to justify inequality for disable people themselves, but it has also done so for women and minority groups” I think he means that inequality and discrimination have not only been towards disable people but to women and minorities as well. People with disabilities, women, and minorities all have fought for rights and justice in regards to many ways of life. For instance, the term disability in regards to disable people was correlated to race based on a doctor who referred to Down’s Syndrome as “Mongolism” because he believed that this syndrome came from “Caucasians of the Mongol racial type” (Baynton, p.82). In addition, this led to African Americans not being able to read or lacking
