From the [UK] Times, the New Zealand Herald:

Groups representing people with disabilities reacted in outrage to an official guide for the Beijing Olympic Games that describes them as unsocial, stubborn, controlling, defensive and possessing a strong sense of inferiority.

… “I’m stunned,” said Simone Aspis, a parliamentary campaigner at the UK Disabled People’s Council. “It’s not just the language but the perception that in 2008 we are considered a race apart. Disabled people are introverted and stubborn the same way anyone else is.”

And from the Australia Daily Telegraph: Australian Olympic swimming legend Dawn Fraser (above) says she is boycotting the Beijing Olympic Games because she believes China discriminates against people with disabilities, as well as women and ethnic minorities.

Fraser, who won eight Olympic medals in the 1950s and 60s, said she had witnessed Chinese people spitting on disabled athletes in the streets of Beijing during university games in the 1990s.

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