Is this acceptable?

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  1. Redstone

    Redstone Well-Known Member

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    Putting aside however you feel about the former Health Secretary, it doesn't seem right to me to use a disability as a stick to beat someone with.
     
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    Perfectly fine, he's definitely not using dyslexia to beat him with, he's using it as a way in to asking the kind of question Laura Kuensberg wouldn't.
     
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    No it wasn't appropriate to use it. He wouldn't have dared use depression or PTSD instead, so I have to say it was a bit uncalled for. And that is despite me hating every Tory that has ever existed.
     
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    The Tory despiser within me says that it was fine as it's no worse than how the Tory's actually treat people with disabilities. But then my moral head kicks in and reminds me that it was all kinds of wrong.
     
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    Agreed . Philip Schofield said it full well knowing Matt Hancock knew the rules .
     
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    I disagree, you can ask the same question without bringing up a person's disability and suggesting the reason they didn't understand the rules is because of it.

    It came up on my timeline as a online friend who is a disability rights campaigner quoted it and she was very upset about it.

    We can't just pick and choose who we afford equality to.
     
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    He doesn't get any sympathy from me (given the kind of person he is), but I do wonder what people with dyslexia would feel about it and there will no doubt be complaints flying in to OFCOM as a result.
     
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    This is what happens when the media fail to scrutinise the government for years.
    They then **** up and try to ask all right questions at the totally wrong time.
    It's so messed up at the minute.
     
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    Disability discrimination is on hold for COVID, has been since 2020.
     
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    Yep, imagine if he'd said to someone with an amputated leg, "did your amputated leg make you miss PMQ's last week?"
     
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    Nothing wrong with grilling Hancock for what he did, just the way it was done.
     
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    You don't have to shoehorn this into every single thread you know, we get your standpoint and I respect it.
     
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    I think it more accurate to say it's been on hold since 2010 when the Tories got back into power.
     
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    Nail on head
     
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    Seems like an extremely odd question, which makes me believe it has previously been reported that Hancock blamed his indiscretion on his dyslexia and this question was to get the truth on that story, in which case it is acceptable. I can't do a search to see if that's the case as the Web is now full of this incident.
     
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    With the stuff that's been hidden away from public that's there to find online about Schofield, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones springs to mind. Uncalled for comment.
     
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    I’m not sure it was the best way to phrase the question. Unless he has previously used dyslexia himself as an excuse.

    If I was dyslexic I don’t think I would be impressed at the question though I doubt I would be outraged.
     
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    My daughter's dyslexic and she naybe would misread the rules. However, as a govt minister he should have known the rules so it does seem a bit of a stupid question. Bit like asking David Blunkett if he didn't see the rules I suppose, not on.
     
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    I don’t think it is, no.
     
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    Exactly of course he knew the rules so it's just a little dig at the expense of his disability. Whatever he is guilty of nobody deserves to have a disability used against them.
     
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