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Subject: Re: Wow, what an amazing breakthrough!


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Mr Lloyd
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Date Posted: 11:42:47 08/01/04 Thursday
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In reply to: Paul 's message, "Re: Wow, what an amazing breakthrough!" on 09:04:19 08/01/04 Thursday
I think the point here is - to some people they ARE funny. As for being PC and not "taking the mickey out of disabled people" perhaps you would consider the 2 BAFTA's that the BBC programme The Office won - even though there was an element of "mickey taking" about disabled people in there. Maybe I missed the crowds of wheelchair users gathered outside holding signs aloft demanding the programme axed.

If they wrote songs about disabilities in general - Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy etc, or even hate songs about ethnic groups then perhaps you would have a valid point and they would indeed be bigots. As they are targeting Heather Mills as an individual, they will of course target the one thing that is most famous about her (apart from Macca). It is indeed in bad taste, but you have failed to ask these three questions - yeah? and? so? what?

If you don't like it, don't go - but to force your rhetoric on others seems a little blinkered. I think most of the people who attend the gig will not, as a result, "grow up" and become bigotted and Nazi's.

Your reaction perhaps is a little alarmist. I have worked with disabled people for 5 1/2 years and can't think of one who would take offence. Same as when I hear somone mocking big ears, I don't immediately take offence (mine are huge).


Thanks so much! lecture over
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Re: Wow, what an amazing breakthrough!Paul13:10:03 08/01/04 Thursday
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