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Friday 20 October 2017

When sexist and abusive language is an issue and when it's not

Imagine that a Conservative MP and possible future Conservative party leader was shown on video to say "Get on your knees bitch". How much outrage from the left-wing commentariat would there be? How much airspace would the BBC give to this outrage? How often would the calls for this Conservative politician to quit be repeated? How many times would the BBC give time to left-wing thinkers to explain how the Conservatives were still the nasty party and irredeemably sexist?

By way of contrast have the BBC even reported that 'a video has emerged of Clive Lewis on stage at a Momentum event telling an audience member "Get on your knees, b*tch".'

More, including the video, at Guido Fawkes https://order-order.com/2017/10/20/clive-lewis-get-knees-btch/ but still not a word on the Labour Party's propaganda arm, the BBC.

1 comment:

Gary C. Sawyer said...

The power of NotASheep - four minutes after you wrote that, the BBC caved and finally covered the story. Well down the Politics page, of course.