I have a friend with spina bifida & wheelchair bound. I have a hearing loss & cochlear implants. My friend played along as a bully & called Biden a moron, refusing to acknowledge that a speech impediment shouldn't make Biden (or ANYONE) the butt of jokes. [1/6] https://twitter.com/newyorkmorning/status/1311293075478646784

I tried to get my friend to relate to this... that he and I wouldn't want to be made fun of for our own conditions... as I said, he is wheelchair bound because of spina bifida and I have a hearing loss, with bilateral cochlear implants... [2/6]

Jokes at our expense are just as inexcusable as jokes at Biden's expense. My friend didn't concede. I am disappointed in him for this insensitivity... He excuses his behavior by saying he is Republican & [as I quote] "can mock Democrats mercilessly" [3/6]

I am seriously concerned about his spiritual life & relationship with Christ & our Heavenly Father because of his lack of compassion for a person who needs it just as much as he & I need it. Jesus called us to love. NOT mock others. [4/6]

I know I'm being kind of judgmental here. My friend and I are not Twitter friends but we do have a mutual friend who is on Twitter and may see this thread. I don't want to humiliate him here. I wonder whether I ought to have posted at all. [5/6]

But I am thankful for the the eloquence of the tweet I had quoted to begin this thread. To paraphrase, it takes guts and determination to engage in situations like that debate when you have a speech impediment. It does not mean that person is a moron!!