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.
Well, I guess we know just how far into the gutter the Trump Camp is willing to sink.
Ady Barkan, who speaks with a speech synthesizer, interviewed Joe Biden, and someone on 2nd ranking House Republican Steve Scalize's team reworded the clip using the same synthesized voice so Barkan appears to ask Biden to defund the police, and Biden then agrees, which Scalize then tweeted out.
Twitter labelled the tweet a fake and Barkan called on Scalize to delete it, which Scalize has now done, but in such a way that it appears there was nothing wrong with it. Meanwhile a spokesman for Scalize has defended it to the Washington Post as just normal cutting to the essence of the clip, which - whoops - confirms it was done in his office.
It takes real talent to outdo Trump on being openly ableist, but Scalize seems to not just have managed it, but to take pleasure in it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/31/ady-barkan-steve-scalise-doctored-video-disability-biden
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