You can’t think of anyone who’s been ‘unfairly’ deplatformed?
Well, that’s an interesting way to put it. People have been deplatformed, but you get to decide whether it’s fair or not. Right?
That, right there, is the problem. Summed up in your one sentence. One group of people using their imagined moral superiority to condemn others for saying things that they personally don’t want to hear or agree with. This is a shameful state of affairs in a 21st century democratic country that can only stay democratic if free speech remains unimpeded - the exact same freedom of speech and expression that allowed us to become democratic in the first place. And no....freedom of speech does not provide immunity from consequences. But those consequences ought to be dissenting argument from others who are also exercising their right to speak...not losing your job because you dared to express a view that others don’t share. Did Morgan break the law? No. So exactly why should he be sacked? (Which he wasn’t, btw, he resigned. GMB asked him to resign if he refused to apologise - which means they had no actual grounds to sack him).
Morgan didn’t actually deny Markle was the victim of racism - he wanted the evidence. What exactly is wrong with that? She and her gutless husband made a very serious accusation & didn’t feel even slightly inclined to provide any evidence whatsoever. Not only that, they didn’t even manage to get their stories straight. She says she was pregant when these “concerns’ were raised...he says they were still only dating. A MASSIVE discrepancy. We also know, as a matter of objective fact, that Archie is not a prince because he’s not entitled to be one yet so any decent person interested in the
actual truth rather than Markle’s personal version of it would have to be skeptical - at least until they know the full story...which H&M have been very careful to make sure we can’t have. How convenient.
And regarding the mental health issue...Morgan was clear about what he meant. He acknowledged that only she can testify to her state of mind but it stops being HER truth the moment she involves other people...which she did in order to make yet another baseless, unsupported but very serious accusation against people she knows full well cannot actually defend themselves.
Morgan was suspicious of her claim as, frankly, most thinking people are. It would “look bad” for the institution if she received psychiatric help even though her husband has freely admitted on television that he’s been in therapy for years? Really? Even though the BRF have been determinedly and very publicly committed to breaking down the stigmas associated with mental health? And, let’s be frank...how much WORSE would it look for the institution if, having prevented her from receiving medical care that she is LEGALLY ENTITLED TO, the wife of the 6th in line to the throne, pregnant with the 7th, died at her own hand in one of their palaces? Never mind “looking bad for the institution“, that would finish it. That piece of inescapable logic is being ignored by everyone.
She lied about getting married three days before the wedding. She lied about the reason Archie doesn’t have a title. She lied about the reason he didn’t get security. She lied about KP not defending her from stories she considered inaccurate (the ”Kate cried” story actually says that KP vehemently denied it happened). She lied about holiday parties for the tabloids. She lied that BP left her unsupported (she had an entire team created just for her including the Queen’s own personal secretary who was due to retire). She lied about being denied her “voice” given that she made more speeches during her short tenure than almost any of them put together...not to mention guest edited Vogue in which she freely promoted her own political agenda (a seriously irregular thing for a representative of a monarchy that must always remain neutral to do). She lied about being told she wasn’t allowed out...as proven by her endless trips abroad (on a passport she pretended was taken from her, presumably). And on and on it goes.
And yet, in spite of these glaring lies and inconsistencies, you genuinely think that a commentator - paid to share his opinion - should be summarily sacked for voicing doubt?
Witch hunting was outlawed centuries ago. Even our more primitive ancestors finally figured out that accusing & convicting anyone of a crime without a fair and balanced investigation of the evidence is wrong. How desparately tragic that here we are again...the accustion is enough and the justification for this? Well, it’s “Meghan’s truth”. The fact that Meghan and the truth certainly appear to be uneasy bedfellows seems not to trouble her supporters at all. And that, in itself, is troubling.
Sharing experiences of racism and poor mental health is one thing. Making allegations of extreme wrong doing on the part of others while deliberately obfuscating the details so that they can’t be checked and then smugly sitting back and watching the reputations of your husband and child’s family sink into
tit is something else altogether.
That is nasty. That is shameful. That is low and that is gutless.
But it’s fine with “the woke” so that’s OK.
JFC