Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 1:32 pm
I've looked at what he's said. You're attacking the BBC for it forcing an 'agenda' down your throat. Your evidence? A journalist criticising the BBC for not being progressive enough.
Sounds like they are walking the middle ground quite well.
Pushing an agenda (what I said) and "forcing an 'agenda' down your throat" (what you said) are two different things.
Nihal Arthanayake is a highly paid BBC journalist, and for him to say that his mental health is affected because all he sees is white people when he walks into work is unacceptable, whatever the context.
Not sure what the highly paid bit has to do with anything.
Why is what he said unacceptable? I just don't get you lot going all snowflakey over this.
Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 1:32 pm
I've looked at what he's said. You're attacking the BBC for it forcing an 'agenda' down your throat. Your evidence? A journalist criticising the BBC for not being progressive enough.
Sounds like they are walking the middle ground quite well.
Pushing an agenda (what I said) and "forcing an 'agenda' down your throat" (what you said) are two different things.
Nihal Arthanayake is a highly paid BBC journalist, and for him to say that his mental health is affected because all he sees is white people when he walks into work is unacceptable, whatever the context.
Not sure what the highly paid bit has to do with anything.
Why is what he said unacceptable? I just don't get you lot going all snowflakey over this.
When that Gary Lineker upsets all the snowflakes they start wanging on about how much he earns, too.
If Nihal Arthanayake is earning at least £150k a year but complaining that his mental health is suffering because of all the white people in his work place I'd suggest life perhaps isn't quite as bad as he makes out.
The BBC have deleted a tweet that described Harvard President Claudine Gay as a "victim of campus culture wars" following her resignation for failing to condemn on-campus antisemitism and for plagiarism.
faldO wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:30 pm
The BBC have deleted a tweet that described Harvard President Claudine Gay as a "victim of campus culture wars" following her resignation for failing to condemn on-campus antisemitism and for plagiarism.
I noticed The Guardian use the phrase ‘measured response’ in describing Gay’s attempt to downplay anti-Semitism. Article has since been amended. Bizarre
And seems to suggest that plagiarism, if addressed, should be addressed and highlighted only by the left? Is that your position? In which case, what happens when there isn’t much appetite from people to apply scrutiny to those they are allied with?
This kind of muddy thinking is exactly what leaves room for the right to not just claim the moral high ground on the initial actions, but to also point to the sulky evasiveness of those on the left who can’t acknowledge wrong doing or consequences for one of their own
CEB wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 2:11 pm
That’s a pretty bizarre comment in itself.
And seems to suggest that plagiarism, if addressed, should be addressed and highlighted only by the left? Is that your position? In which case, what happens when there isn’t much appetite from people to apply scrutiny to those they are allied with?
This kind of muddy thinking is exactly what leaves room for the right to not just claim the moral high ground on the initial actions, but to also point to the sulky evasiveness of those on the left who can’t acknowledge wrong doing or consequences for one of their own
It was a sardonic response to Hoover's comment. Sorry if it's caused any confusion on my position.
