www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/04/france-autistic-tories-castrated-uk

and also to ask if it's OK for M Lellouche to insult people with autism in this fashion, is it OK for me to call him a fat garlic-munching twat?

I hate this too.
It is smug middle class wankerage - he and his type know that to call someone 'retarded' or some other scummy derogatory term would result in condemnation.

So they use the correct or PC language but still are using disability as an insult.

Wanker.

Its like the oh so funny use of "are you learning disabled?" or " what are you - special ed?" which I have heard in a couple of american programmes

[vomit emoticon]

I agree. I was a bit shocked - are the mores so different in France?

It happens here too - gibes about Gordon Brown having aspergers etc. I wish William Hague had taken him to task for this - if he'd used the terms pagwatch referred to I'm sure he would have done.

I kept looking online expecting to see tons of outrage like the Jan Moir Stephen Gately piece but there is none

aha, suppose this is something:

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6904854.ece

there is a thread in sn

2shoes - yes, I have been on it, I meant I expected to see outrage all over the Net like there was about the jan Moir piece - facebook groups etc, but there was nothing really.

It made me really, really angry that it was used in that context, and even angrier that the press just keep repeating it, as if he'd been called duplicitous or ignorant or something else more appropriate. It was vile, and the way people who would huff at the use of "retarded" are oblivious is disturbing. Pig ignorance on so many sides.

it is odd, as it was such an odd thing for a supposedly inteligent person to say