Writing in the [UK Times], columnist Melanie Reid responds to recent criticism of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for the misspellings in a letter of condolence he sent to the mother of a fallen soldier. Reid says personal attacks leveled against Brown amount to public bullying of a man whose impaired vision impedes his ability to read and write. Brown is blind in one eye and has impaired vision in the other.

It is impossibly ironic, isn’t it? That while such callous treatment of an ordinary person would create outrage, Gordon Brown the Prime Minister — a co-founder of modern, inclusive Britain, one that aims to treat all disabilities, faiths, sexual inclinations and skin colours alike — is under fire for the sin of not being able to see properly.

A disabled man, in other words, being humiliated for his handicap. Nice. Really nice.

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