Exposing decades old bigotry is uncomfortable,mostly because it reminds us of our own complicityIt’s like one of those fill-in-the-blank name games, where you find, and say,your hipster pop-up restaurant name by taking the way you’d least like to die followed by the meat you’d like to try least. apart from in this case, you take a celebrity you disapprove, and then search their social media for the most offensive words you can judge of.
Last week we saw YouTuber Jack Maynard leave I’m a Celebrity find Me Out of Here! after the Sun published tweets from 2011 to 2013 in which he’d used the words “niggas” and “retarded”,Zoella (the beauty vlogger who earns £50000 a month) apologised for mocking “fat chavs” in 2010 and grime star Stormzy apologised for tweets sent between 2011 and 2014 which contained the word “faggot”. The week before, the newly hired (now newly fired) editor of the homosexual Times Josh Rivers had been found directing disapprove towards, or among others,transgender people, Jews, or Asians,Africans, and the homeless in tweets sent between 2010 and 2015.
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Source: guardian.co.uk