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17 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

 

 

 

There was much more to it than that, with Stewart making a series of offensive comments, questioning Martin's level of education and encouraging a Twitter pile-on.

 

Nevertheless Martin, who I remember very well from the Lib Dem Youth forums, has said he doesn't agree with ITV's actions, and that an apology would have been sufficient.

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Here is a good test case going on before our eyes. The broadcaster Alastair Stewart has left his job of decades after sending a quotation of Shakespeare to a member of the public. The quotation (because it refers to an ape and the recipient happens to be black) is being interpreted as a sign of racism. A sign so grave that a long and illustrious career is over.

 

So here is a test. Does ITV actually think that Alastair Stewart is a secret racist, really hates black people and has spent his life hating black people? Does it think that he has managed to hide this throughout the course of a long and illustrious career, in which I imagine that he worked with people of every imaginable race and background? Does it think that his deep, terrible racism has only come to the surface once? And does it believe that on the one occasion when Alastair Stewart finally satisfied his racist urges he did so through the medium of Measure for Measure? The likelihood – as Jeeves would say, would appear to be a remote one.

Mr Stewart – who, I suppose I should mention, I do not know, and don’t believe I have ever met – has used the same quotation before, in dismissing other social media combatants. But at moments like this the facts seem of little significance.

 

Yet perhaps this time we could make it different. Perhaps this time we can ask ITV and the jihadis of social media whether they honestly believe the set of events outlined above. Do they honestly think that the above suggestions are true? Or is it possible that a man used a quotation he had used before without any racist intention at all?

 

Some people will say that it is only the career of Alastair Stewart that lies in the balance. I disagree. At moments like this what lies in the balance is whether we have any interest in truth or not. Whether we have any belief in justice or not. And – in a way – whether we have any recognition of the fallibility of man. Or not. Let’s see.

 

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/in-defence-of-alastair-stewart/

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2 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

There was much more to it than that, with Stewart making a series of offensive comments, questioning Martin's level of education and encouraging a Twitter pile-on.

 

Nevertheless Martin, who I remember very well from the Lib Dem Youth forums, has said he doesn't agree with ITV's actions, and that an apology would have been sufficient.

 

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2 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

There was much more to it than that, with Stewart making a series of offensive comments, questioning Martin's level of education and encouraging a Twitter pile-on.

 

Nevertheless Martin, who I remember very well from the Lib Dem Youth forums, has said he doesn't agree with ITV's actions, and that an apology would have been sufficient.

So you think that’s worthy of him losing his job? Effectively calling someone thick in an argument on twitter, and sending a pretty pretentious Shakespeare passage, which has been deemed, but certainly not proven to be, racist?

 

If that’s the rules, nobody on here would be in a job should we be in the public eye.

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3 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

There was much more to it than that, with Stewart making a series of offensive comments, questioning Martin's level of education and encouraging a Twitter pile-on.

 

Nevertheless Martin, who I remember very well from the Lib Dem Youth forums, has said he doesn't agree with ITV's actions, and that an apology would have been sufficient.

Rachel Riley did that to a young girl. 

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6 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

No she didn’t.  And the person who was accused of it got apologies after that was shared on Twitter.  Ask Reverend and the Makers. 

Didn't know that. She has dome it to loads of people though. She is a venomous little cunt.  

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19 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Where did I say that? I was just pointing out there was far more to it than the right-wing media is letting on.

How so? (Not disputing it before you start crying just wondering what else you know that we don't) 

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