Was reading about cancel culture/public shaming and came across the Adria Richards story from 2013 and how this had parallels with Harry and Meghan. In short, Adria was a developer attending a conference with the topic at hand being how to get more women into tech. Two male developers, who were within earshot but speaking privately to each other, made innuendos about big dongles and forking repos. Richards hearing this, takes offense, turns around, takes their picture, posts it to Twitter saying they were making inappropriate comments. She posted her location and inferred she feared for her safety. The comments were not directed at her. She was not being harassed. It was two guys joking with each other. She presumably felt compelled to call out this sexism and was perhaps making a grandstanding point about the topic at hand and how this kind of thing, literally occurring in parallel, didn't help get women into tech. Conference organisers removed the two and one of the guys (Hank), given the PR disaster for his firm as it all goes viral, gets fired very publicly. Married with three kids. Stressed out obviously. Richards doesn't say anything about the firing. F*ck you for being so sexist, it has consequences. Hank proffers a mea culpa and an apology via a hacker/developer forum. Hank gets a new job quickly and learns his lesson. Then Richards is turned on for what she did, her company is continuously attacked by hackers doing DDOS and say it will stop once she is fired. She is fired. The attacks stop. She gets death threats. Her life is impacted significantly in the years after.
The alleged racist comment (per Bowers book) was Camilla making a joke with Harry about how she was concerned their children might have ginger afros. Harr harr! This was not said to Meghan but she was told about it subsequently. I think the above gives a glimpse into what Meghan was trying to do via the reach of an Oprah interview and what Richards was doing via the reach of Twitter and its shaming seeking mobs. She weaponised it but was “hoist with her own petard”. Aggrandise themselves via the use of important issues which need to be tackled (sexism/racism) but do so on the assumption that the targets will be punished, face consequences and that there will be none for themselves. The goal was that cancel culture/public shaming would deliver a PR hammer blow to the Royal family. A senior royal was a racist and with a multitude of races comprising the commonwealth then it would lead to a domino effect in countries leaving the commonwealth as its leaders were infested with racism. Interview was finished and they were seen laughing between themselves. Job done. F*ck you for not giving us half in half out. Sit back and watch the fireworks. Then the scrutiny turned on them. The lies and mistruths emerged. Their credibility sank. They reeked of narcissism and delusions. The clap backs about being racist for not believing them were limp. Like Hank, the royal family recouped quickly after the mea culpa of acknowledging them particularly about race. The coup de grace of "recollections may vary" drew a line under it. No major damage done. The machine of it churns along as it always has and Harry and Meghan have been impacted significantly. They are the butt of jokes, a go to example of toxic victimhood.
Like Richards her offense could have been dealt with privately and no consequences would have been dealt. She would still be working with her reputation intact. If Harry and Meghan didn't do the Oprah interview (or at least didn't cry racism) then they would likely retain some semblance of civility with the royal family and the general public.
is going to be a ho free zone I believe it's all part of her cunning plan. She's now moved onto the divorce plan and she's going for the sympathy vote. The Sussex Squad are all saying what a bast@rd the stoat is for coming without her, turning everyone against him and the jobs a good un
