Reply to: Toby Young deletes his tweets

[tiggat]

Perhaps we should all be a bit less judgemental and more tolerant, accept apologies and move on.

Are you suggesting being less judgemental and more tolerant of people who are judgmental and intolerant

[unixman]

Sounds like you see a conspiracy. Who are 'they' by the way ? He was a cock who didn't deserve the job - he got the job because of his mates and who he knew.

No. Twitter mobs (a fairly common feature of Twitter) are not a conspiracy. TY's extreme vulgarity blocked him from this role, perhaps rightly. However, some prominent leftists have highlighted the TY issue while remaining silent about similar problems on their own side. Eg. comments from Emma Dent Coad (alleged racism), Jared O'Mara (sexism), John McDonnell (lynching comments), and so on. Perhaps we should all be a bit less judgemental and more tolerant, accept apologies and move on.

[darmstadt]

Exposed: London’s eugenics conference and its neo-Nazi links – London Student

[WTFH]

I may remind you that Ken Livingston is only temporarily suspended from the Labour party.

Barry McElduff is only temporarily suspended as well (3 months)

[minestrone]

Wouldn’t they? Ken Livingston might have something to say about that.

I may remind you that Ken Livingston is only temporarily suspended from the Labour party.

[meridian]

Let's face it, if he had 9 years of "death to the jews" type comments nobody would have complained.

Wouldn’t they? Ken Livingston might have something to say about that.

[WTFH]

[minestrone]

Let's face it, if he had 9 years of "death to the jews" type comments nobody would have complained.

[meridian]

He is certainly committed to education these days, though I don't necessarily agree with his views on it.

I can't decide on this. Some of his past tweets have been bad. Not just un-PC, I mean really very vulgar. I guess that harms his public standing and reputation.

On the other hand, his political opponents have used his Twitter history to block his appointment. They don't really object to his vulgarity, just his views on education. They have mobilized a Twitter mob to get their own way. Pure politics. Personally, I don't agree with his views, but they might have been useful in balancing out the lunacy on university campuses, anti-free speech activities and so on.

Looks like your assumption about a leftie conspiracy is wrong by about 180 degrees.

It appears that Tobes was pushed out because his far-right eugenics views are slowly becoming public...

http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/20...n-he-went.html

[BrilloPad]

Sounds like you see a conspiracy. Who are 'they' by the way ? He was a cock who didn't deserve the job - he got the job because of his mates and who he knew.

You did a very selective quote there! Unixman was clearly in 2 minds.

Toby was not a cock. He was, is, and will be forever probably.

[radish2008]

They have mobilized a Twitter mob to get their own way. Pure politics.

Sounds like you see a conspiracy. Who are 'they' by the way ? He was a cock who didn't deserve the job - he got the job because of his mates and who he knew.

[unixman]

He is certainly committed to education these days, though I don't necessarily agree with his views on it.

I can't decide on this. Some of his past tweets have been bad. Not just un-PC, I mean really very vulgar. I guess that harms his public standing and reputation.

On the other hand, his political opponents have used his Twitter history to block his appointment. They don't really object to his vulgarity, just his views on education. They have mobilized a Twitter mob to get their own way. Pure politics. Personally, I don't agree with his views, but they might have been useful in balancing out the lunacy on university campuses, anti-free speech activities and so on.

[tiggat]

Toby Young is now trying to retrieve the 40,000 tweets he pointlessly deleted.....

I came up with a joke about this:

In the future when computers rule over humans, they will have records of who upset others from our social media accounts, it's PCs gone mad!

[BrilloPad]

Toby Young is now trying to retrieve the 40,000 tweets he pointlessly deleted.....

[SueEllen]

Toby Young deletes his tweets

...because they're a load of rightwing bollox that make him look like a pillock.

Apparently deleting tweets means he's against openness, which means he is now not suitable for the role he was appointed to even if he was suitable in the first place.....