Fuck the dwarves...

As any regular reader may have grasped already, I don’t aim, or profess, to be the most Politically Correct (PC) blogger on the web. However, there are times where I veer towards a socially unacceptable viewpoint. This is one of those times.

I don’t like disabled people.

I should possibly elaborate on this. I don’t dislike all disabled people, but I know a few disabled folk who are just pains in the arse so I can’t say I like disabled people – much in the same way I can’t say I like white people, black people, Christians or Muslims – I like and dislike individual people, not groups.

I have known a fair number of people who have a disability of one form or another; deaf-mute, blind, cerebral-palsy, autism, dwarfism, schizophrenia, Welsh, etc . The only thing that unites all of these people is not disability; it’s that they have the same range of diversity as the able population.

It is ridiculous to lump people together with any generic term. I’m short and fat, but I don’t speak for all short and fat people, I am not an example of a type of human epitomised by shortness and fatness. If you like me you don’t necessarily like all short, fat people – unless that’s your fetish, in which case, each to their own...

To give an example here, I know a dwarf. He is a racist, bigoted, angry little shitbag. He’s not a lot of fun to be around, and so, I try to avoid him. I couldn’t give a shit about his height, or lack of it, I just don’t like the views he espouses every time he opens his tiny little mouth. A prick is a prick, however high he can reach.

I suppose the point I am trying to make here is that while the PC PCs are patrolling our thoughts, they are forgetting the principal point of PC-ness – people with disabilities are just people. Some are fabulous, wonderful people who enrich the lives of the people around them and, conversely, some are cunts.