http://bookhugger.co.uk/2010/02/george-miller-talks-to-david-kynaston/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://bookhugger.co.uk/2010/02/george-miller-talks-to-david-kynaston/comment-page-1/#comment-2289 James MacDonald Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:17:45 +0000 http://bookhugger.co.uk/?p=4660#comment-2289 Your accounts of open prejudice remind me--painfully--of my experiences as a disabled person in London in the early '70s. I was routinely mistaken as drunk, particularly when looking for accommodation. Even when I tried to explain I had cerebral palsy, I was not believed. Eventually I resorted to relying on friends to find bedsits on my behalf. Naturally, pubs were forbidden me. Indeed, I became teetotal in order to be cold sober when I was stopped by police. As you may well concede, even this was a deal below finding work as a disabled person--a struggle that continues to this day for a class of person without my education. General ignorance might be the short explanation. In relation to your study, it relates to your point that anyone out of the ordinary was subject to all forms of discrimination, a most discouraging corrective to Orwell's view that the English are a gentle race. Thank you for reading this and congratulations on your tremendous social history. Your accounts of open prejudice remind me–painfully–of my experiences as a disabled person in London in the early ’70s. I was routinely mistaken as drunk, particularly when looking for accommodation. Even when I tried to explain I had cerebral palsy, I was not believed. Eventually I resorted to relying on friends to find bedsits on my behalf. Naturally, pubs were forbidden me. Indeed, I became teetotal in order to be cold sober when I was stopped by police. As you may well concede, even this was a deal below finding work as a disabled person–a struggle that continues to this day for a class of person without my education. General ignorance might be the short explanation. In relation to your study, it relates to your point that anyone out of the ordinary was subject to all forms of discrimination, a most discouraging corrective to Orwell’s view that the English are a gentle race. Thank you for reading this and congratulations on your tremendous social history.

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