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

On the plus side in her audience she also said repeatedly that Nigel Farage is not her cup of tea (well something like that using her own choice of descriptive words) asked if anyone was a Reform voter in the room, then gently encouraged anyone who disliked or disagreed with her views on reform and Farage to go home. So not all bad.

I used to think she was hilarious… then I read her book. It’s basically just filth and acting like masturbating strange men in bushes as a favour is funny. Even though she was very young and is apparently a lesbian. Very strange woman.

People can wear traditional African clothing in the UK too

And?

She asked a weird question. Was answered and refused to accept the answer thus tumbling into the same weird racial othering that MM engaged in.

But thanks for proving my point about ‘some’ people’s issue being not what was said but who said it.

So we should respond to someone being offensive by being offensive ourselves.
okaaaaay 😆😆😆🙄

All of it. Although special mention for the mention of “sub-saharan Africa”.

And also the implication that an entire region is one country.

Are you aware that the lady in question was speaking to someone who was wearing traditional African clothing which no doubt prompted her question?

I imagine it's bit where you claim there's only one genocide currently happening in the world

Oh the irony! Check your own ageism and misogyny perhaps 😆🙄

If course you can’t get excited about it if none of what she said applies to you!

Which bit is ‘ absolutely batshit’ ?

This is absolutely batshit.

I was impressed with Andi Peters professionalism. He must have been shocked but his response was civil and classy (more than mine would have been), it made Miriam look rude and ignorant by comparison.

Absolutely, its like the freeze or flight response. And I think entertainment presenters are conditioned to always defuse a situation rather than confront it.

Where have you seen people “on The Left” defending her?

Sometimes shock means you don’t have the right words in the moment so I think it’s unfair to criticise his response.

How has she not been cancelled?

Every part of the media knows exactly what to expect from her. There is no point complaining about her as an individual because she is an arsehole and would get a thrill from her continued notoriety. It is the companies that keep inviting her to speak her rancid mind that should be challenged . They keep giving her airtime because they know people will watch, fascination with the horrible perhaps. Why aren’t people doing whatever was done a few years ago to cancel scummy celebrities?

While I definitely think that is true for some there are people who have commented on MN on this issue who have expressed similarly problematic views regarding race. Some who in the other thread criticised MM while defending Lady Susan Hussey who engaged in identical behaviour. So it’s clear for some their objection to what she said is not what she said but rather her politics.

Even in Saddam's Iraq, the elderly could speak their minds without fear - they just didn't do it on national TV.

This woman shouldn't be persecuted but she shouldn't be on TV.

I think her personal motto is there's no such thing as bad press. People love controversy especially the "say it as it is" people who also are pretty rude.

Honestly I am gutted by her, I loved her as an actress growing up in James and the giant peach, Harry Potter, Hilda etc.

She is nothing but offensive these days, and nothing like the characters she's portrayed which I guess is a testament to her acting but such a disappointment that she can't recognise that the people who loved her are the people who are now repulsed by her behaviour.

I think in their minds they just cannot fathom it as being offensive. It’s like the people who ask people “where are you from, no I mean where are you REALLY from”. No matter how often it’s explained why some take offence in it they just cannot get their head around it. Like trying to explain maths to a butterfly. Some people have a complete inability to put themselves in the shoes of another so assume if they are ok with it everybody else should be ok with it.

I don’t think it’s because of her liberal politics - it’s because she’s a nasty woman who seeks attention because she thinks that she’s an intellectual and that people find her shocking and charming in equal measure every time she uses the word ‘cunt’, something unspeakably racist or tells a sexually explicit anecdote on a talk show.

She is just a tedious woman and the sooner she is cancelled, the better.

I am actually genuinely horrified at this, possibly (sadly) unsurprised, but also VERY glad I missed it.

I find the posts here suggesting that MM weird race obsession is on account of her liberal politics. Plenty of conservatives / right-wing people are equally race obsessed. I don’t know why some people are pretending otherwise.

That’s nothing to do with the point I’m making .

That was a rather bizarre post to write, granted.