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yeah but it does show yet again that there's a queue a mile long made up of people happy to write cheques for cis white men who say shitty things about minorities, regardless of the circumstances.
interesting to note how a lot of the reportage around this has been about how young white men who find themselves in spotlight need better training on how to use social media...
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interesting to note how a lot of the reportage around this has been about how young white men who find themselves in spotlight need better training on how to use social media...
Yup. The undercurrent of think what you like; but don't say it out loud, in case you get caught is deeply sinister.
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better training on how to use social media...
Indeed, I found this a bit baffling, surely the effort should go into coaching young white men not to be racist/sexist twerps.
Having said that, I suspect this may be quite a massive task... My kids attended a majority white suburban secondary and witnessed a culture of white teenage boys identifing as an increasingly marginalised and oppressed minority needing to fight the liberal tide of race and gender values that threatens their birthright as proud english men...Early on I found this shocking especially when the level of privilege is so great they should be wringing their hands with embarassment rather than whinging about a percieved loss of their god given right to be a sexist/racist twat.
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better training on how to use social media
this doesn't sound that far away from
anyone is his position would surely have the presence of mind to go back and review what he said and maybe delete the fuck out of anything that might bite you on the arse now that you're in the national spotlight, because if you don't it kinda looks like you still hold those opinions.
It feels kinda weird to me to expect someone to go "well, yeah I used to be a right fucking twat, I'd better go back and tidy up my public image" - I see the point about if it's still out there then people might assume that's what you still think and/or it's still out there to cause offence, but it's image management - like coaching someone now to have a clean image. Maybe it's a better result for it to bite him on the arse now, after all, it's what was said at the time, and to have to make this public apology. I also get people wanting to avoid that embarrassment and hiding their histories, but I don't get expecting that they should.
(armchair critic here who doesn't know anything about this story or people apart from what I've read in this thread)
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Similarly, the "fuck off you racist" response from many people isn't going to help the situation much.