I've been seeing a lot of very ableist memes and discussion of Dr. Stephen Hawking. While he was alive, he called his wheelchair and AAC Device (communication computer) his freedom. He spent much of his life active in the Disability Rights Community. Dr. Hawking frequently said that due to his motor neurone disease, he had more time to think about actual physics, since he wasn't expected to do the usual administration duties required of most professors of his standing.

Please be aware that memes showing him "free" of his wheelchair are seen by people in the disability community as devaluing our lives. You are telling us that disabled lives are not worth living. In short, that we should JUST DIE.

Would you tolerate that if anyone said that about race? That (insert color, continent, or ethnicity) lives weren't worth living? Hopefully you're not that racist.

So, in short, please stop.