George Floyd was killed by the cocktail of drugs in his system at time of death, the existing damage to his health by the many drugs he had taken over the years, a criminal lifestyle which included the forged banknote he was endeavouring to spend when the cops showed up, and resisting arrest because he had a record. The police involvement was a minor contributing factor to the lifestyle choices HE had been making for years. Sorry, not sorry.
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Blaming this on "DEI" or whatever is exactly what the right wing media want. They want anything to get attention away from the way they went so far over the top on something that was barely in the public interest to begin with, and probably would barely have been reported if it happened at another time of year.
Instead of quietly resigning when it first came out Arday rang the police and got lawyers involved he doubled down instead of getting out when he could. Even the guardian exposed him as a fraud. It's tragically sad but he couldn't let it go he got caught
Funny, Jacob Rees-Mogg said as much on The Telegraph Youtube channel about a week ago. He didn’t think it would be big news had it not been ‘silly season’.
The official autopsy says otherwise. But you strike me as someone who gets their intel from Facebook posts.
Jim Gamble (former head of CEOP, now NCA) has a more sensible take than the 'look what you've done' types
Why is reverse racism allowed? That is a vile slur and the twit should be pulled up. My (white) American husband was gobsmacked
And that part is in the public interest, but once he'd resigned it should have ended there.
The only story this year I can think of this year which generated as much press is the Mandelson thing, which was much much more clearly in the public interest.
Stephen Fry was quite happy to tell people he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but when he was later advised he did not have BPD but instead emotionally unstable personality disorder, he wasn't so keen for everyone to know.
It's a similar thing with eating disorders. Someone with anorexia will be tiny and frail, and will be offered sympathy. Someone with binge eating disorder will (usually) be overweight and will experience mockery and ridicule.
It's a sad world we live in.
Exactly right. Again, the cherry picking of who we humanise and dehumanise.
Sorry for the minor derail, but who is 'guest' who has been mentioned on here a few times?
Jack Monroe.
Woah, when was he told this?
I think he made himself public interest when he released his memoir.
I think also that some of the other plagiarism cases they mentioned were with people who did otherwise have a sound academic background, experience, and a body of published work. So it was a case of academic misconduct (plagiarism) against an otherwise ordinary academic career.
Whereas this was evidently not the case with Arday. So it wasn’t just plagiarism, but a poor appointment of someone who was clearly not qualified, with an extremely weak academic record, coupled with all the publicity seeking stuff (the book, the charity claims, the TV appearances etc), the powers-that-be evidently rushing in to protect him at all costs, and setting the police onto journalists. It’s those elements taken together which made it such a big deal for the media.
I just don't understand??? Why should the media be held to account, but not the person the stories are about? If he didn't want media attention, maybe don't lie to get a job at a well known establishment. Like others have said, if he just worked at Tesco nobody would have noticed. If he just worked at Tesco, even if he was then writing a book about all of the other bits, I don't think he would have had so much attention, much like Jack Monroe. Nobody really picks up on all the little things because they're simply not important or interesting enough people. His position at Cambridge, and how he got it, was a HUGE factor in the subsequent attention. But then he wanted more attention hence the book and the planned book tour. He could have said no to any of these opportunities.
He didn't deserve to die but he was far from an innocent party, and the media shouldn't stay quiet just because someone might put an end to it all. There would be no media at all then? *Can't report on this horrific murder because the murderer might kill themselves next time*.. oh well, maybe they shouldn't have murdered someone then. Media is there to bring things to peoples attention, and if people don't want that attention maybe don't behave in a way that will attract it
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes etc etc etc.
He didn't deserve to die but he was far from an innocent party, and the media shouldn't stay quiet just because someone might put an end to it all. There would be no media at all then? *Can't report on this horrific murder because the murderer might kill themselves next time*.. oh well, maybe they shouldn't have murdered someone then. Media is there to bring things to peoples attention, and if people don't want that attention maybe don't behave in a way that will attract it
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes etc etc etc.
As a more simple example, I would LOVE to take part on a quiz show/game show but the fact it could end up on TV is enough to put me off. I don't want people commenting on my appearance/intelligence/anything really, so I don't put myself out there for comments to be made.
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thanks ~ I don't know much about her (other than that she's an utter fool) so didn't get the connection
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