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Dec. 14th, 2010 06:18 pmVia the F-Word UK, the Daily Mail decided to mock Jody McIntyre for rioting while crippled.
No, really. Here's The Guardian's discussion of the 500 complaints the column has garnered so far.
(Not that the Daily Mail is somehow unique in this. I've pointed before to left-wing blogs and sites mocking people with disabilities for being out while disabled when protesting against stuff the left generally approves of, but when a disabled person is protesting on behalf of the left - especially when they're injured or attacked by police - it suddenly becomes worth supporting the rights of disabled people to protest. We notice these things, you know.)
Anyway, sorry. You'll have to scroll down a ways to get to the Daily Mail's mockery of Jody, but it includes a rather iconic drawing of Joey and his brother as characters from a show called Little Britain. I'm only dimly aware of it as that's not my sense of humour so I just didn't watch, and thus can't come up with something comparable in other countries.
No, really. Here's The Guardian's discussion of the 500 complaints the column has garnered so far.
One tweeter described Littlejohn as "shameful [for] mocking the disabled". Another, referring to the Mail's coverage of Frankie Boyle's joke on Channel 4 about Katie Price's son, said: "When Frankie Boyle makes jokes about disabled people, the Mail complains. When Littlejohn does it, the Mail prints it."
(Not that the Daily Mail is somehow unique in this. I've pointed before to left-wing blogs and sites mocking people with disabilities for being out while disabled when protesting against stuff the left generally approves of, but when a disabled person is protesting on behalf of the left - especially when they're injured or attacked by police - it suddenly becomes worth supporting the rights of disabled people to protest. We notice these things, you know.)
Anyway, sorry. You'll have to scroll down a ways to get to the Daily Mail's mockery of Jody, but it includes a rather iconic drawing of Joey and his brother as characters from a show called Little Britain. I'm only dimly aware of it as that's not my sense of humour so I just didn't watch, and thus can't come up with something comparable in other countries.
