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Alessandra You are clearly right to complain, unfortunately most the fuel protesters are very right-wing who don't mind destroying our planet. Keith On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:22:00 +0100 Alessandra Iantaffi <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear all, whilst reading an article on the petrol crisis at this site: > > http://www.author.co.uk/mag/polemia.htm > > I came across this quote on Clarkson > > "The boy-child Clarkson appears on British TV encouraging us all to buy > bigger and faster. At 6'7" tall he is unusually large, something of a > freak even these days. Clearly he is someone not qualified to judge > the suitability of people carrying vehicles. He is beyond us all in > size, wants to be in front of us all in speed and acceleration and, in > my 'umble opinion, is behind in imagination and in understanding of the > consequences of his behaviour. " > > I wrote to the author of the article to point out that although I > personally agreed with his opinion on the petrol crisis and though I > also dislike Clarkson, his comments were, in my opinion, disablist and > tainted his article with ignorance and prejudice by implying that his > 'freakishness' clouded his ability to judge. > > The author replied by saying that he stands by his comments and I should > drop the PC attitude and invest my efforst into stopping pollution and > so on. (I can forward both my letter and the reply if you are > interested) > > I was wondering what you think (if you have had the patience to read > this far!). > > Thanks > > Alessandra Iantaffi > -- Keith http://www.egroups.com/list/disabilitystudies/info.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%