Dual Standards

[davidgillon]

Seeing a lot of disabled people commenting on twitter about how everyone seems to be condemning Will Smith, but no one seems to be discussing Chris Rock using a world-wide bully-pulpit to punch down at a woman with an auto-immune disease. (And everyone else with a visible difference).

As a friend noted, that just an hour on from an actually disabled actor getting an Oscar for a film about disabled people.

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[sovay]

how everyone seems to be condemning Will Smith, but no one seems to be discussing Chris Rock using a world-wide bully-pulpit to punch down at a woman with an auto-immune disease.

The majority of my friendlist actually is discussing that angle, but I suspect it's a factor of the majority of my friendlist being disabled or chronically ill.