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How Terribly Sad For Alistair Stewart After Serving Itn As A Newsreader
That he’s been forced to step down because of a misjudgement when he called someone and ‘angry ape’ on Twitter
The recipient said he was racist and so ends an unblemished 30 odd years as a newsreader
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The recipient said he was racist and so ends an unblemished 30 odd years as a newsreader
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"...he’s been forced to step down because of a misjudgement when he called someone and ‘angry ape’ on Twitter" He didn't call someone an 'angry ape'. He used a well-known Shakespeare quote which essentially says a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The quote has the words 'angry ape' in them, but it is a leap too far to suggest he called the other...
08:00 Thu 30th Jan 2020
retrocop - // What next? The woke snowflakes demanding Shakespeare be banned?
He must of been a racist what with Othello The Moor of Venice and all that //
Shakespeare was indeed a racist, although the term had no context or meaning in his day.
He wrote plays that appealed to the ordinary man in the street, and that included pandering to the ordinary man's prejudices as well, hence his negative characters like Othello and Shylock, because Moors and Jews were distrusted in the Elizabethan society in which Shakespeare lived and worked.
But everything is a part of its cultural context, which is why re-writing history on any level with a modern perspective is such a pointless and damaging thing to do.
We are who we are when where we are because of what we have been, and where we have been, and trying to pretend that attitudes and actions that shaped out modern culture are 'wrong' because they no longer apply is the product of a mind with an oved-developed sense of self-righteousness, and an under-developed sense of the importance of history.
He must of been a racist what with Othello The Moor of Venice and all that //
Shakespeare was indeed a racist, although the term had no context or meaning in his day.
He wrote plays that appealed to the ordinary man in the street, and that included pandering to the ordinary man's prejudices as well, hence his negative characters like Othello and Shylock, because Moors and Jews were distrusted in the Elizabethan society in which Shakespeare lived and worked.
But everything is a part of its cultural context, which is why re-writing history on any level with a modern perspective is such a pointless and damaging thing to do.
We are who we are when where we are because of what we have been, and where we have been, and trying to pretend that attitudes and actions that shaped out modern culture are 'wrong' because they no longer apply is the product of a mind with an oved-developed sense of self-righteousness, and an under-developed sense of the importance of history.
I can understand that Mr Stewart has breached editorial guidelines by being foolish enough to use a Twitter account linked to his ITN employment.
But I do wonder if there is more to this than simple stupidity and misjudgement, which should not be the subject of a dismissal, or a call to resign or be dismissed.
Perhaps there are other factors and forces in play of which we are unaware.
But I do wonder if there is more to this than simple stupidity and misjudgement, which should not be the subject of a dismissal, or a call to resign or be dismissed.
Perhaps there are other factors and forces in play of which we are unaware.
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