David Haye Joins The Disablist Tweet Party
September 13, 2012
David Haye seems to have joined the recent ‘party’ of well known people Tweeting disablism. Nicky Clark told me late yesterday:
I saw the Tweet asking for this extremely offensive hashtag to trend:
https://twitter.com/mrdavidhaye/status/245957352803672064
And I responded:
I wasn’t going to blog about this incident until I saw this Tweet from disabled model Shannon Murray:
If you saw the brilliant programme that was The Last Leg, you will remember that they ran a hashtag, #isitok. Had they been asked the question: “Is it ok for a well known boxer to Tweet extremely disablist language and compare the uncontrollable dribbling of a severely disabled person to erotic dreams?” I have no doubt that the answer would have been a resounding “No Way!”
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