Well given the fact none of you lived through the period and I did and this is the first I’ve heard of intimidation of a blind woman, I’m afraid as usual your perceptions are as warped as normal.
Better go google assault on blind women in the fifties, see what you come up with, we didn’t have rolling 24/7 news media back then, so life did seem less threatening and having recently survived extinction at the hands of a genuine oppressor there was no need for the media to be manipulated by a lame left wing Government (Blair)to create a climate of fear.
Racism? I don’t think I even came across the word til much later in life, but then large tracts of the country had nobody other than caucasians living together, the whipping boys back then as I recall were probably the Irish, not that we had any of them round us.
On the buses, men got up for women, even us kids used to have to mind our p’s and q’s, open doors for ladies get up when a grown up entered the room, low level politeness and good manners which as we all knew, cost nothing.
You wouldn’t know unless you experienced it, but trust me it was generally better then than now and I wouldn’t swap having lived my life through that period to be young today and put up with this crap. (Including listening to half the bollox some of you lot spout from time to time).. 😉