Remembering Joey Deacon 🫣

The Joey Deacon phenomenon of the early 80s was history’s biggest disability shaming trend, ignited overnight by a children’s television interview, which awakened a whole generation of sadistic British school kids to the concept of mental disability 😂

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

Chucking a Deacon I believe the gesture was called.

[@bluewhitewebdesign5004]

If they had edited the interview on Blue Peter, instead of carrying it live, history would have been very different

[@Zekethenub1]

When I went to school it was just spaz, used as a noun. He or she is a spaz. Spastic was the description of the behavior.
He or she is behaving really spastic! Or being a spaz.

[@DonnieWong72]

Yeah we used that word every day!

[@wildheart1973]

When we peaked as a nation

[@sirdrumgun8680]

Bro trust me gen z atleast in my country was just as bad and that’s with the enforcement of being ableist and all that is cranked to 100