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.

Comments

[legionseagle]

I bloody well hope that if someone made a nasty crack about my appearance on a night which was supposed to be a celebration to an audience of about a billion my partner would have taken similar action (though hopefully out back in the CCTV blind spot near the gents.)

[davidgillon]

out back in the CCTV blind spot

Makes sense ;)

BTW, did you see this legal tweet yesterday:

Counsel for the Home Office says in Court: My instructions are that the SSHD has received no paperwork in this case since October 2021. I know that this is incorrect because I have evidence from after that date [provided by the SSHD] but those are my instructions.

— Rajiv Sharma (@Raj_Sharma_UK) March 28, 2022