#1041

Mate. It’s 2019. This level of reasonable caution will not do. Get angry about her on Twitter ASAP

[edit: dodgy turn of phrase, on reflection - amended]

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#1042

As I recall something similar happened when Private Eye called a businessman a cunt and he sued for libel, whereby they won on the technicality that his unfair practices could reasonably be something you’d be called a cunt for.

#1043

OK I’m lying. I’m on her side because we liked her on Strictly.

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#1044

I mean the major complaint is that there are black people in Africa right now who can do this kind of thing. Africans all over the continent find it bemusing that white people pop along with cameras and go “ooh look at the poor unciviliseds, aren’t they quaint” when they have booming tech sectors, built up metropolises and plenty of the same shit we have over here in the “developed” world.

Or as the Onion put it:

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#1046

Yes I’m aware of that, but there is zero evidence so far that that’s what’s happened here. There is nothing icky about a British journalist going to Africa and doing a documentary about Africans for a British audience. That would just be normal. Like I said it would be better to actually watch it before criticising.

Also worth mentioning that much of the coverage referred to her as a “Strictly star” rather than by her more salient qualification for being there. I genuinely wonder if Lammy would have felt the urge to jump in two-footed if it had been say Orla Guerin or Simon Reeve in the picture. I rather suspect not.

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#1048

remember when it turned out George Michael had been giving loads of money to good stuff anonymously? Makes me happy to think about that

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#1049

george michael was the only good celebrity

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#1050

The very thought! :scream:

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#1051

HOW MANY?!

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#1052

wonder what Tweetman has been up to this week

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#1053

Dolly Parton.

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#1054

where people angry about Labour before this year or is it a new thing? Hard for me to put this in context

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#1057

actually…yes

#1058

looking at tweetman it seems like the party is going to collapse any day now

#1059

OK thread created.

#1060

Have you heard of Drownedinsound user TheWza?

:wink:

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#1061

sorry about Scottish Labour

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#1063

She’s kind of the fall guy for Comic Relief here - if it was with Unicef or Oxfam, she’d probably not have had as much criticism, but it’s only a year since CR were called out very publicly over the Ed Sherran, Tom Hardy and Eddie Redmayne films (amongst others). This looks like more of the same, as if they’ve taken nothing on board.

It’s probably not fair that she’s ended up personally in the line of fire, but CR need to get much smarter about the optics of their annual campaigns.

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#1064

wouldn’t even have such a big boner for Labour but why is nobody else talking about wealth redistribution? It’s not like it’s some genius strategy that has come about due to a once in a lifetime pioneer or something. Pretty basic that rich people should give more to poor people and stop being fucking twats

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#1065

As many, many others have noted though, it’s not necessarily just about her presence there - it was also about the photo and the way it was staged.

I mean, charities have been aware of this kind of thing for at least a decade, and have deliberately avoided the kind of imagery put across in this instance.