Jun. 5th, 2017
Breitbart employees infuriated by colleagues' 'appalling' comments after London terror attack
TLDR: terrorism only happens in the UK because Muslims. Apparently 30 years of IRA attacks didn't count as terrorism. And UDA, UVF and the whole alphabet soup of Catholic on Protestant, Protestant on Catholic hate, but it was the IRA that thrived on US support. And of course it's less than a year since Jo Cox MP was assassinated by a white racist, but of course that doesn't count.
The second comment reported would actually count as a hate crime if made in the UK.
The UK right-wing troll Katie Hopkins lost her job at a London radio station for similar comments (she called for 'a final solution) after the Manchester attack and has been reported to the police for them.
Meanwhile, there's a much better class of response reported here: J.K. Rowling is making important points after the London terror attacks
ETA: This one's too good to miss: Man Pictured Fleeing London Terror with Pint Still in Hand. As people are pointing out, given the price of beer in London...Autism Women's Network: Disability Doesn't Come With Extra Time and Energy
What's missing from the discussion is that disabled people work harder because of the fear of losing their job, and the difficulty of finding one, in the face of workplace disablism. So when people misinterpret it as some positive, that's three separate layers of disablism being compounded into one positive.
Restaurants Haven’t Lived Up to the Promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Maitre d' "Would your boy like a colouring book"
Wife of President of Little People of America: "He's my husband".
Maitre d': "Would your husband like a colouring book"
*Jaw Drops* *Headdesk*