"How do black people feel? How do brown people feel? How do cripples feel? How do fat people feel?"

She is a product of the media age where "there is no such thing as bad publicity". She has a book to sell, Morning TV has hours of air-time to fill, social media needs people to froth, etc, etc.
We should know better and treat slebs the same way we treat children: do not encourage bad behaviour by rewarding it with attention.

I am well aware that I have added to the froth!

I went to an “audience” with her once. Not my pick. We were both glad when it had finished. Even the person that thought it was a good idea and booked the tickets. lol.

She's also considered very 'woke' and I think probably thinks of herself that way too. It's not as though she has been closeted away taking notes at the parish council and bookkeeping for the local builders merchants all her life.

Why are you mentioning those men? This is about MM being racist, not anyone else. I know also if this had been anyone on the right saying what she did, the threads would be flooded with the usual rhetoric you started out with. Hypocrites.

Who on the left are defending her? Not being goady - just haven't seen any defence?

Oh I know there are raging racists out here on MN but I'm very disappointed to hear such a disgraceful thread would be allowed to stand... Mind you I had a surreal exchange with what sounded like a proponent of the Nuremberg laws yesterday and their comments were absolutely allowed to stand.

She's a celeb not some isolated person living in the sticks unaware of what is pc.
She gets away with it because of her fake eccentric 'whoopsie have I been naughty' image.
She needs cancelling from chat shows. All the Graham Norton types enabling and seal clapping are complicit.

Interesting to see how some on the left are defending her though. Must be difficult for them to process this when she has also been an advocate for a lot of left leaning ideologies. She probably just doesn’t care, like a lot of elderly people, who develop a ‘no filter’ mindset where anything that was previously hidden in their head just comes out.

She actually said ‘cripple’?

I don't think that's it at all. There is no context in which what she said was OK. As with posters on the other thread, I broadly agree with her on Israel/Gaza, but find her genrally annoying and in this particular instance, shockingly awful.

She’s 85 years old. How many of your 85 year old parents aren’t stuck in their ways and living in a different reality? She’s from an entirety different world altogether. It doesn’t make it right. It doesn’t make it palatable. But it does explain why she doesn’t understand the modern world.

She is being targeted because she is a racist and bigot who thinks it is her right to insult people she is being interviewed by!

Seriously?? I think not!

Bloody hell.

She’s not thick she’s just horrible and knows exactly what she’s doing .

She is thick as fuck.

'I can't get excited about what she said tbh, in the grand scheme of things there's much worse going on.'

Of course there's worse stuff going on but it's the whole snap shot. She represents many celebs who desperately virtue signal then seem to have no idea they are also a massive problem with the langauge that they use and the beliefs that they spout.

Ok, but the reason not to use hate speech even against people who probably deserve it is that it doesn’t just harm the person you are using it against, it hurts everyone else in the group the term targets. If you call someone a hag it implies that old womanhood itself is worthy of hatred, which is an attack on even the decent non-ableist old women who wouldn’t dream of using the word cripple.
Margolyes is a dick but that doesn’t make it open season on all the hateful terms that can be used to describe her.

She's losing her marbles is my considered opinion.

Yes there are plenty of fully with it people in their 80's but there are plenty who aren't. She's losing what little filter she had, which I suspect is age related.

I can't get excited about what she said tbh, in the grand scheme of things there's much worse going on.

Im an old woman myself and think she is absolutely vile. However Im also fat and a 'cripple' so she would probably hate me anyway.
She lived through some times of great liberation in the 70s and 80s. So did my parents and I can't imagine they ever asking what colour someone's parents were. In fact, I saw them interact with several black people and they never felt compelled to ask this!

Surely she should know how fat people feel

No it's because she asked a black man 'what are you??' and then went on to dig a deeper hole with more offensive langauge.

Yes she does know what trouble she's causing. She'll be loving it as getting lots of publicity for her silly book. For some reason whilst yes many of us are appalled by her offensive crap she seems to get away it because she's a fat, woke leftie.

Anyone else would be hung out to dry.

She’s being calling disabled people, like me, a cripple for years which is incredibly offensive and she knows it but doesn’t care. So if I want to call her a nasty old hag, I bloody well will.

I thought she'd died years ago. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yep!