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Jade Mitzi said:
There is long time beef between JB and IK, it was never going to be a softly softly piece and Julie is known for being brutal, crass and a difficult read. Afraid I think a lot of how she summarised IK and EJ is pretty accurate, though the piece did make me cringe..
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Oh absolutely, was expecting the bile towards them and that is fully deserved. The swipes in many other directions are truly disgusting though. Don't know what I expected, but a focus on the matter at hand would've been nice - it's just a rambling rant attempting to draw flimsy parallels between the many targets of her pre-existing hatred.
 
I think Burchill's piece summed India's character up well: "For those of you who have not had the pleasure, Knight is very much of the ‘Lady Muck’ school of female columnists. The Cambridge Dictionary defines the type as ‘A woman who thinks she is very important and should be treated better than everyone else’."
 
She only got to the actual victims and inadequate sentencing towards the end. If I hadn’t known the case anyway, I wouldn’t have kept going through all that bile about India. I can’t stand IK, but it is disrespectful to the victims to centre IK rather than them. JB is right about the wokebros and the privileged living behind their wokescreens though.
 
depository said:
I think Burchill's piece summed India's character up well: "For those of you who have not had the pleasure, Knight is very much of the ‘Lady Muck’ school of female columnists. The Cambridge Dictionary defines the type as ‘A woman who thinks she is very important and should be treated better than everyone else’."
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that was part of my favourite paragraph :)

‘A woman who thinks she is very important and should be treated better than everyone else’. I would elaborate that she is a woman who is convinced she is better than others with no evidence to show for it, no beauty or wit or humanitarian acts. Above all, she will never judge or mock herself, but lives in order to do so to others.'

100% accurate
 
The last para is the important bit for me:

“So widespread is this sickness that in 2017, Norfolk’s police chief constable said that those who viewed child-abuse images should not even be prosecuted, because the police were already unable to cope with the volume of cases. It is a national disgrace that men such as Joyce, who drive the market for the rape of infants, are spared jail by the courts of this country. But it is a national scandal that our newspapers – usually so keen to police the morals of our public figures – close ranks to protect one of their own. What a shameful episode in the history of British journalism – the silence of the hacks, shielding the evils which take place behind the Wokescreen.”
 
Jade Mitzi said:
If I am completely honest, I think the article was more of a way for JB to have a legitimate kick at IK. The true miscarriage of justice being EJ strolling away without jail time and being pretty much kept out of the press, shielded from criticism was a wee bit lost.
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Yeah, it was obviously written in anger, which (although justified in relation to EJ/IK) doesn't always lead to the most thoughtful response. I still love JB though.
 
Rosie878 said:
I think it’s brilliant. She definitely has the measure of India. I know most of IK’s mates aren’t newsy journalists but I do think if it had been a Tory or Corbynite MP they would have commented on it.
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He's not an MP though (JB makes the same error in her article, wilfully I'm guessing in her case) - and I don't think it would matter if he were a Tory or Corbynite. They're not crucifying him because he's a mate's husband, not because of his political leanings.
 
cholulamare said:
He's not an MP though (JB makes the same error in her article, wilfully I'm guessing in her case) - and I don't think it would matter if he were a Tory or Corbynite. They're not crucifying him because he's a mate's husband, not because of his political leanings.
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I think some of them aren't crucifying him because they're terrified of losing their gigs at the Times.
 
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