A couple of locked twitter accounts have been carefully casting doubt on this conviction. I haven't followed it closely myself, but watching Polly (who probably fired that article off from Tuscany) and some others go on about this, when this could be quashed down the line, is something.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 August 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
I don't know if it is possible to write a piece articulating the doubts is possible, but these people think of themselves as sharp, independent thinkers.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 August 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
"she didn't look like a killer" = "I expect them to fit certain racial and class profiles because I am a bigot" because otherwise what does a killer look like?
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 19 August 2023 14:14 (one year ago) link
it's the stuff of zone 1 lib dinner conversations, oh yah doesn't look like a born criminal at all.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 19 August 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
― ydkb (gyac), Saturday, 19 August 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
justice4lucy.com looks available
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 19 August 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2023/sep/02/gareth-southgate-englands-most-polarising-figure-is-just-sticking-to-football
I know Southgate's answer to Henderson was not good enough (and as pointed he could have easily gotten rid of him), but it's not exactly a great spectacle to see melt man from terf rag dancing on his grave either.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 2 September 2023 10:59 (one year ago) link
Vote Labour.
"We're all trying to find the guy who did this" https://t.co/H5AtBhuWHI pic.twitter.com/bPmzHieeoN— Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever) September 6, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link
i love the "might appear desirable" bit, poor idiots are mistaken about their own best interests
― da elephant in daruma (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link
Article in which the author is exposed to the awful conditions delivery drivers work under and the sub-minimum wage pay they receive, acknowledges that companies take advantage of undocumented migrants to keep labour costs down and then finishes with this line. Liquid Guardian. https://t.co/FORxIo0sXp pic.twitter.com/GBWBJN0RgA— Hats fan account (@bluenilehatsfan) September 15, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 September 2023 11:13 (one year ago) link
is "liquid x" a thing now?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 September 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uJC3pcEVUU
Since 1994
― kinder, Friday, 15 September 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
i'm familiar with the ref. hadn't heard "liquid <not football>" before though.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 September 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
guardian pie all over his face
― imago, Friday, 15 September 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
Another week, another Sonia Sodha article in the Observer
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/17/teachers-need-guidance-to-resolve-issues-gender-identity-in-classroom
― AlanSmithee, Sunday, 17 September 2023 10:06 (one year ago) link
bigotryisfree
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 September 2023 11:27 (one year ago) link
It’s a TERF talking point to read the Cass review rn
― steely flan (suzy), Sunday, 17 September 2023 12:23 (one year ago) link
I kind of wonder if there's anyone at Guardian nervous about articles in the opinion section reading as reporting - the one 'I' in there was "parents I talked to"
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 18 September 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
fair dos to Marina Hyde for looking back at what she said about “Sachsgate” at the time and not liking what she sees
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/19/brave-victims-russell-brand-misogyny-deserve-full-support
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
It's ok until she recommends a book by Sarah Ditum, apparently a notorious TERF/SWERF.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link
ahhh fuk i knew there had to be a catch
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
of course there's receipts
Kinda glossing over exactly how you covered it at the time a bit here aren't you pic.twitter.com/wQ0oS8sL58— Rob Incognito (@MrPostsGood) September 19, 2023
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
fucking yikes
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
you have to make some thorny choices sometimes when your job is to be the most celebrated and utterly hilarious arch-cynic columnist in the UK and regularly impress some of the worst people in the country.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
Hyde has mentioned that her own anger at herself had been edited out and she's requested that it be put back into the article.
― djh, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
The 2009 opinion piece screenshotted above is directly mentioned, but not linked to - which is fair dos imo, as it would just re-amplify the original abuse.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
also it would remind the reader of what a fucking arsehole she is
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
so fucking grim
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link
can't believe i got taken in!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Maybe. Or maybe she could think about not giving an opinion anymore, given what disgraceful stuff she was writing back then.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link
The Guardian has edited their review of Sex Education to remove the explicit transphobia that Lucy Mangan had previously included.— Jess O'Thomson ♿️ 🏳️⚧️ (@jessothomson) September 21, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 September 2023 09:35 (one year ago) link
My partner was involved in making the new series of Sex Ed so I was googling reviews yesterday and I misguidedly ended up on mumsnet, where there are multiple threads on that Mangan review. The brainworms are genuinely terrifying.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 22 September 2023 10:27 (one year ago) link
Lucy Mangan is a massive TERF but one who has flown under the radar until now.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 22 September 2023 12:29 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/03/kemi-badenoch-next-tory-leader-not-bad-thing-for-party
"For all the hysteria of modern Westminster, Sunak has steered his ship from a tempest into calmer waters with some dignity."
Gets worse from that point.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 09:25 (one year ago) link
"She must be right that the crippling cost of climate-change policies should be publicly argued if they are to be obeyed."
You can argue with floods or 40+ degree heat.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 09:26 (one year ago) link
He missed out the part about her being an awful Christian fundamentalist bigot.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 10:19 (one year ago) link
The Guardian trumpeting its anti-establishment credentials at the same time as Guardian Europe – the initiative this is launching – is prostrate in terror at the idea of anti-establishment politics of any stripe. pic.twitter.com/hQ9SlIL9pg— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) October 3, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:18 (one year ago) link
I think you’ll find that Israel simply ‘received’ 5000 rockets https://t.co/AUJnbeX0g0— sorry for the laugh (@SimplyAYT_) October 7, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 October 2023 10:36 (eleven months ago) link
As bad as she's always been tbf.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/labour-tame-policies-clean-energy-employment-housing-rachel-reeves
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:23 (eleven months ago) link
Jobcentres will stop the venomous culture of sanctions against “scroungers”, with positive support into work instead.
I have not seen anything to suggest they are going to change one thing about the UK benefits system in any way at all .. apart from pushing vulnerable people closer to death a bit harder with *positive support*. "Captain Ruthless" - lol, stfu you preposterous old fool.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:43 (eleven months ago) link
"Rockstar reception for Reeves"
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 07:48 (eleven months ago) link
Mind-blowingly racist article by Howard Jacobson today, admiringly retweeted by Sodha, Freeman etc
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/15/victim-blaming-is-a-crime-to-so-many-progressives-except-when-it-comes-to-jews
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 15 October 2023 12:03 (eleven months ago) link
Where are all these people in the West who are celebrating the Hamas attack?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 October 2023 12:32 (eleven months ago) link
living in liberal war crimes fans' heads and not even having the decency to pay rent
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 October 2023 12:54 (eleven months ago) link
I knew we were heading this way when I started hearing sensible left liberal types recommending david baddiel's blackface apologetics book as the one thing you have to read if you want to understand these issues
― Left, Sunday, 15 October 2023 14:02 (eleven months ago) link
Steve Bell is not a hill worth dying on
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 October 2023 12:12 (eleven months ago) link
Toynbee, as ever, the consummate liberal.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/31/labour-ceasefire-gaza-israel-tear-apart
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 10:18 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/marine-le-pens-support-of-israel-seen-as-move-away-from-partys-antisemitic-past
Headline has changed from:
The Guardian@guardian·15hMarine Le Pen’s support of Israel seen as move away from party’s antisemitic past
To:
Le Pen’s anti-Islamism and support of Israel seen as attempt to obscure antisemitic past
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:10 (eleven months ago) link
The more you hate muslims the less anti semitic u are, thems the rules
― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:26 (eleven months ago) link
lol oh guardianpaws
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 10:43 (ten months ago) link