As a country the UK is arguably the most accepting in the world
I kind of agree with this; so much effort has been made to ‘include’ all sorts of people in the UK, which sometimes is sadly attacked by people banging on about the ‘PC Brigade’.
I think the Beeb have deliberately hyped up this story, and for good reason. Like how reporting on that Dutch racist who wanted to come over here, which sparked off some good debates about ‘freedom of speech’. People’s attitude towards Disability are suddenly in the spotlight, and these attitudes are being questioned and challenged, if they are believed to be ignorant or wrong. I’ve heard loads of great radio discussions on this, and I think it’s actually very encouraging, to hear the vast majority of people saying they have no problem whatsoever with the TV presenter at the centre of it all, being on telly in front of their kids.
I also think she’s been extremely dignified, in not reacting to some of the very ignorant and bigoted opinions that were expressed.
Time we saw people with disabilities as people, and not ‘the disabled’.
lets not talk about coloured people
I think the more acceptable term is ‘people from ethnic minorities’, these days..
After all, we’re all ‘coloured’.