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@The_Seldom_Killer
I think that Jade Goody and her ilk performed a very important service for our society. Before the advent of reality TV as we now know it today, the tabloid press had far more time and space to devote to delivering their rather sickening brand of thinly veiled racism, homophobia and misogyny as well as purposefully reductive and ignorant representations of social and political processes.
Their arrival into "sleb" culture may have increased the amount of tawdry and risible gossip that is largely peddled at us with nothing short of frightening aggression, but it has meant a decline in what amounted to the acceptable face of bigotry.
Don't get me wrong, I couldn't stand the woman and have no misgivings about her passing but it's wrong to think that this format of celebrity and the mechanisms that have created it have done no good.
That said, whilst I intend to remain respectful of the greiving, I would dearly love to punish the ridiculous and stupid society that either exploited or idolised here. To that ends I am seriously considering a petition to rename the region of East Anglia to East Angular in her memory.