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'The Guardian has found itself defending a sex-offender's right to expose themselves to children'

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secular111 · 03/09/2021 19:54

This is a continuation of the thread at;

Shameful incoherent, poorly-referenced, completely biased piece of journalism from the Guardian

The quote in the title is from Dave Hewitt's essay published today;

The Guardian's Ideological dead-end

As you can likely guess, he eviscerates The Guardian, and leaves its rotting carcase out-in-the-sun for the vultures to pick over.

Quite simply, Guardian readers have once again been fed a pack of Alex Jones-style falsehoods, this time over the Wi-Spa scandal. As usual, LOJ contributed to the attempts to hoodwink the readership, and for the most part it seemed to have worked. Until Andy Ngo exposed the entire rotting falsehood in what has proven to be the journalistic scoop-of-the-year to date.

Hewitt details how The Guardian's world-view has seen it simply unable to present itself as a reliable news source, with it now peddling deliberate falsehoods and fake-news, in much the same way the right-wing press in the US is accused of. The Guardian though has gone further in its commitment to falsehood; all the complainants in the Wi-Spa scandal were Black women, so The Guardian had determined to deprive those women of their legitimate voices - a fundamentally racist act.

I'm not sure what the owners of The Guardian - The Scott Trust, have as a business model. Hoping that the readership and subscribers are easily or willingly fooled by whatever lies the hacks write doesn't seem to be a long-term strategy. That though is precisely where The Guardian is today, having abandoned facts are sacred as a creed, replaced with lies are paramount.

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NecessaryScene · 03/09/2021 20:24

What is sloanerangerpandora suggesting about trans people here exactly?

This board has quite strict rules against negative generalisations.

It sounds like they're suggesting either that trans people are generally in favour of men exposing themselves to women and children, or that they're in favour of newspapers trying to excuse that.

But hopefully I'm misunderstanding. Clarification welcome.

MrsTerryPratchett · 03/09/2021 20:20

@sloanerangerpandora

Yawn....Another transphobic thread.
Do you believe the registered sex offender getting a cock out in a women's and children section was doing it because of entirely innocent reasons? Or not?

Occum's razor may be for you.

aliasundercover · 03/09/2021 20:20

In the same issue LOJ is mewling about how it’s good to drive a gay man away from Pride for supporting an LGB organisation.

As Titania McGrath says: “When we call for you to be sacked, trash your reputation, dogpile you online, insult you, libel you and wish for your death, that’s just our way of gently helping you to come over to the right side of history.”

yourhairiswinterfire · 03/09/2021 20:20

Yawn....Another transphobic thread.

You're the only person that's mentioned trans here...

Tibtom · 03/09/2021 20:18

@sloanerangerpandora

Yawn....Another transphobic thread.
Where? You had better report it!
Theeyeballsinthesky · 03/09/2021 20:18

MN frown heavily on transphobia so no doubt you’ll be reporting it Sloane

sloanerangerpandora · 03/09/2021 20:16

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EmbarrassingAdmissions · 03/09/2021 20:06

I wonder if they'll one day apologise for their classic 1986 advert as an inappropriate attachment to the notion that there is such a thing as a full picture or that it might be desirable.

Shedbuilder · 03/09/2021 19:59

Brilliant. Laurie Penny is still trying to pretend this never happened and that any form of discrimination is wrong.

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