A cross-party appeal to stop this vile "journalism" - from a journalist!

Apr 27, 2010 00:05

It will be no surprise to any of you that my political sympathies are primarily Lib Dem and have been for quite a bit ( Read more... )

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m31andy April 27 2010, 12:43:17 UTC
As the definition of "racist, homophobic, able-ist, class-ist, misogynistic hypocrite" is actually "Jan Moir" (we're still trying to get this into the OED), this does not surprise me at all.

Insinuating that domestic violence is usual in a relationship as just as vile as suggesting that as young people cannot just 'die', a dead young person has to have been doing something wrong (like, say, being married to a person of the same sex)

I hope Ms. Gonzalez-Durantez will get (at the very least) a formal apology. But I'm not holding my breath.

Perhaps it's just 'the internet' being 'mischievous' again?

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shezan April 27 2010, 14:49:01 UTC
we're still trying to get this into the OED

Shall we start a Facebook Group?

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firynze April 27 2010, 13:37:41 UTC
That really is horrifying. And the misogyny of insisting on referring to her as "Mrs Clegg" just ups the ante. :(

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reddragdiva April 27 2010, 20:55:32 UTC
This is, of course, Jan Moir we're talking about.

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pgmcc April 27 2010, 21:21:27 UTC
Well said!

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rosamicula May 4 2010, 19:03:25 UTC
Good to meet you the other day - hope you don't mind being friendulated.

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