I really wish there would be a good programme/discussion about influencers, SM and the criticism they get. It is quite fascinating why a place Tattle is so popular.
I'm afraid the David Baddiel thing will definitely not be it. He is rather like Sali in that the awful things he has said and done are dismissed with an airy wave of the hand 'oh it was different back then and if you remind me of it you are a troll'.
His include the repeatedly doing blackface and mocking a black footballer with hilarious pineapple dreadlocks, and after seeing Kathleen Turner in a stage production of The Graduate calling her 'a fat bird with small tits'.
It's become increasingly obvious over time that those who clutch their pearls the hardest and scream the loudest online while pointing huge wagging fingers at others over ists and isms and phobes were usually guilty as fuck of whatever it is they claim to be concerned about at some point in their past. Time and time and time again the pattern occurs. A good example is any of the endless self-identified 'male feminists' on various platforms going around scolding everyone (and especially women who don't agree with them), who always seem to turn out to have a history of sexual offences or domestic violence or grand scale harrassment IRL against women. It's a classic diversionary tactic to accuse others of whatever it is that you have been doing, that I don't even think most of them are even aware of indulging in, psychologically.
Or in media circles they're just bandwagon jumpers, doing whatever the industry deems necessary to stay current and get the TV appearances and columns etc etc. A rain of hot piss on all of them.
I don't have an issue with Baddiel's past comedy, it is what it is and was. I enjoy lots of shit from that era. What I have an issue with is ageing comics who've stopped being funny reinventing themselves as pious, purse-mouthed little wokescolds heaping judgment on whoever and whenever for their own current benefit from the mansions their past paid for, knowing full well that past doesn't stand up to their own alleged current standards. The more sanctimonious they are, the worse they were in the past seems the general rule.
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Feels an apt time to thank you and the other Mods for the work you do keeping this site running!
Just had to say how odd it seemed that she still tipped the tech who injured her and had to tell us she did. Surely a helpful discussion on how the treatment had gone wrong would have done more for their career and benefitted future clients than bunging them a fiver?
