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As the Morrissey and A A Gill furores show, says The Telegraph's Michael Deacon, liberals like nothing more than getting offended on Twitter:
..."The best measure of liberal outrage is Twitter. Whenever a public figure does or says something that suggests insufficient reverence towards a particular minority or PC principle, the site blazes. Think of the time the writer A A Gill jokingly called Clare Balding a "dyke on a bike", and the time the singer Morrissey called the Chinese "subhuman" because of China's animal rights record (difficult one for the Left-ish, that: attack him for racism, or acclaim him for caring about animals? On balance they decided xenophobic epithets were worse than killing puppies for fur). Last week's target was Nadine Dorries MP, who'd said that if those on benefits were capable of Tweeting dozens of times a day, they should use their computer skills to earn a living. This was interpreted as an attack on the disabled.
I understand it. We all love thumping the table at some perceived social wrong, particularly when the like-minded are thumping the table too. Nothing beats the indignant thrill of the herd..."
Full story - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ies-liberals-love-a-good-Twitter-outrage.html
..."The best measure of liberal outrage is Twitter. Whenever a public figure does or says something that suggests insufficient reverence towards a particular minority or PC principle, the site blazes. Think of the time the writer A A Gill jokingly called Clare Balding a "dyke on a bike", and the time the singer Morrissey called the Chinese "subhuman" because of China's animal rights record (difficult one for the Left-ish, that: attack him for racism, or acclaim him for caring about animals? On balance they decided xenophobic epithets were worse than killing puppies for fur). Last week's target was Nadine Dorries MP, who'd said that if those on benefits were capable of Tweeting dozens of times a day, they should use their computer skills to earn a living. This was interpreted as an attack on the disabled.
I understand it. We all love thumping the table at some perceived social wrong, particularly when the like-minded are thumping the table too. Nothing beats the indignant thrill of the herd..."
Full story - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ies-liberals-love-a-good-Twitter-outrage.html
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