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Baroness Nicholson in Sunday Times

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BovaryX · 28/06/2020 06:58

I haven't seen this article posted, apologise if it has been. Baroness Nicholson describes her hurt and bewilderment at being accused, denounced, judged and cancelled. If the reports of the source of these accusations are true, have their previous tweets and comments been subjected to the same critical examination? If not, why not?

‘Are activists targeting me?’ Tory peer Baroness Nicholson’s despair over Booker prize trans
Baroness Nicholson said yesterday that she was sad and surprised to be dropped as an honorary vice-president of the Booker Prize Foundation, the literary accolade founded by her husband, after being accused of offending a transgender model, Munroe Bergdorf. The Tory peer, who is deaf, had held the role since 2009. Her late husband, the businessman Sir Michael Caine, established the prize.Asked how she felt, she said: “Sad. Very sad. Somewhat surprised to be labelled by the Booker board members as homophobic, transphobic and racist'^

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BovaryX · 28/06/2020 08:05

@SulisMinerva

It’s very disturbing that a literary prize has succumbed to cancel culture. You’d think writers of all people, would understand the importance of being able to freely express ideas. Would ‘The Satanic Verses’ pass the woke threshold if published today?

If this is the stance they are taking, I sincerely hope they examine all the writers on their long list and the judges for any evidence of past wrong think. Nothing worse than a righteous hypocrite...

There is a greatTelegraph article about righteous hypocrites. I posted the link here.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3951869-Telegraph-piece-on-Orwellian-doublethink?msgid=97843691#97843691

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JoyFreeCake · 28/06/2020 08:03

Somewhat baffled by the random and irrelevant "who is deaf". I didn't already know that, and I don't see how it benefits me at all WRT the story to know it now. Might as well say "who has size 5 feet".

SulisMinerva · 28/06/2020 08:02

It’s very disturbing that a literary prize has succumbed to cancel culture. You’d think writers of all people, would understand the importance of being able to freely express ideas. Would ‘The Satanic Verses’ pass the woke threshold if published today?

If this is the stance they are taking, I sincerely hope they examine all the writers on their long list and the judges for any evidence of past wrong think. Nothing worse than a righteous hypocrite...

popcornlover · 28/06/2020 07:59

... posted too soon continued here

...ones attacking Baroness Nicholson. Instagram took one down (multiple reports by the looks of it), but the posts attacking BN remain.

popcornlover · 28/06/2020 07:57

How awful to be removed from the prize that your husband established.

On a side note, I reported some of Bergdorf’s posts on Instagram, one for inciting racial hatred and the on

LunaNorth · 28/06/2020 07:46

An utter outrage. Fuckers.

They are supposed to promote BOOKS. Y’know, those things that contain myriad ideas, presented so that we can read them and form our own ideas and opinions and views of the world.

There should be NO cancel culture in the book world. That leads to bonfires.

For actual fuck’s actual sake.

Has Munroe sodding Bergdorf ever even read a book?

Fuck.

Pikachubaby · 28/06/2020 07:39
Angry
onalongsabbatical · 28/06/2020 07:39

And thanks I will read the article later.

onalongsabbatical · 28/06/2020 07:38

She's 78, and when I googled to find out this came up - although it doesn't say it on her Wikipedia page - Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (born 16 October 1941) is a transphobic British politician...
How the fuck have they done that? Another day, more rage.

BovaryX · 28/06/2020 07:27

Thanks igneo for the share token. I agree endof Baroness Nicholson is being treated despicably.

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endofthelinefinally · 28/06/2020 07:15

It is really disgusting that such a hard working, intelligent woman is being treated so badly and with such disrespect by people who have contributed so little to society.
I worry about her health tbh. She must be in her late 70s?

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