Not enjoying the Janey Godley pile on....

I too am baffled if these tweets were so recent and not hidden, why haven’t they been raised before, or when they first appeared?

I was going to say this - I’d have thought these tweets would have been revealed before now, or she’d have deleted them when she started becoming more widely known. Unless there’s a way of showing deleted tweets?

Ok I’ve now seen enough that I have to unfollow her, I had thought it was good for her to apologise genuinely but, I hadn’t been aware of all the content until this thread.

I too am baffled if these tweets were so recent and not hidden, why haven’t they been raised before, or when they first appeared?

NiceGerbil, she uses Chernobyl as a metaphor for genetic radiation damage causing serious abnormalities in people she wishes to mock for their appearance or limited intelligence.
She apparently believes this to be “humorous”.
I find her utterly unamusing and her language ignorant and repulsive. She also seems to be loved by SNP supporters, which is the final straw as far as I’m concerned!

Thank you but I'd have to dig my reading glasses out and too comfy!

I think I have the gist.

The one in the article linked appalling.

If that's her style and always has been then...

Has Frankie Boyle ever apologised? Pretty sure he hasn't. I think he said it's comedy if you don't like my comedy then fuck off. Or similar.

twitter.com/JamesSa60728172/status/1435885108297404420

The collection of tweets are more readable in this link. Can't check if they are all genuine because janey has locked her account.

I agree re male comedians, Frankie Boyle has said some awful things, with no impact on his career

I do think that there are male comedians who get away with terrible stuff. So I do think that the response is sexist to some extent.

What's her fixation with Chernobyl?? Anyone know? That's lousy.

I couldn't read all the tweets too small.

I still think the current pile on is unhealthy, but I think that anyway, whoever it is. It's just not necessary. I do not however blame anyone who was at the receiving end of her nastiness feeling that she is reaping what she sowed.

I knew her from years and years ago, when I read one of her books, they are heartbreaking, however it doesn't excuse any of the tweets she has sent and while you may think her apology was good, I think she is still trying to justify it all.

actually I did find some of her Sturgeon voiceovers quite funny.

No pity that she’s being eaten alive for her racist, disablist and generally foul humour. Not so much fun when you’re the one being targeted for your views.
She was more than happy to unleash her venom on others for less reason.

I loved her, I'd only seen her voice overs which were great, and v funny.
It's only fairly recently I'd looked into her a bit further and realised she's awful.

Tbh I only knew from the Richard herring podcast, pretty surprised at the racism.

I used to vaguely like her, followed her on Twitter, I didn't know she was vile. I stopped following her when she told anyone GC to bugger off or similar can't remember the details. I'm sad to see she's all round nasty.

Sturgeon seems to be a fan

The tweets are fucking appalling. I've never had much of an opinion on her, never found her particularly funny but wasn't bothered by her either. It seems she's enjoyed creating pile-ons herself in the past and now she's taking flak for her own actions. No one forced her to be a racist. The phrase 'cancel culture' gets bandied around so much these days but usually it's just someone not enjoying having to face the consequences of their own actions.

If she hasn't already she should log off Twitter as I can imagine the volume of angry messages could be quite overwhelming.

What I don't get is that everyone knew JG was like this. Everyone knew that she was foul mouthed, her 'humour' was largely based on attacks, her persona absolutely was based on being non-pc. It's not like any of this was a secret but it seems to have been decided at some point that she was now an excellent ambassador for modern, SNP Scotland, largely based on a Trump sign and a willingness to attack anyone who spoke out in favour of women's rights.

If the government have got a red face over this then they only have themselves to blame.

Janeys tweets

Those tweets were absolutely awful, and she was a grown woman when she posted them not that long ago. I’m really surprised at them actually.

She does seem vulnerable and very desperate to be liked

Nothing makes mocking disabled people and posting racist tweets acceptable.

Her problem is she has blocked most of the internet. So she believes her own hype.

The problem is not what she said, that's not a secret, she's not hidden it. The problem is that someone at the scottish government didn't do due diligence before making her the face of the new covid campaign.

This is what happens when you don't listen to people. Holyrood is an echo chamber and someone has really fucked up.

Janey has piled on many, many people. I'm not that sympathetic, though I do think she's been dumped from a shitty height for someone else's mistake.

Am looking forward to the Daly Record, LOJ, Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, the Scottish Trans Alliance, Patrick Harvie, and Nicola Sturgeon all standing up for her.

Nothing so far, I see.

There are huge amounts of tweets and voice recordings of her being racist, ableist. Very offensive language. She isn't a child these are all fairly recent. She sounds fucking awful and has encouraged bullying of others on twitter.

You won't get reasonable debate with someone like Janey.

Generally I really dislike the dredging of old stuff on Twitter esp some bloke recently who posted some stuff which got called misogynist when he was 15 or something and it was a. Mild and b. He didn't write stuff just joined in which is a bit different.

However.

While stupid shit written at 15 is one thing, stupid shit posted 5 years ago when you were 55 is not the same thing.

And that comment I read is yikes.

Having said that Frankie Boyle has said some utterly appalling stuff and well he seems to get away with it so is there sexism at play here.

Dunno.

Some of her tweets are awful, racist and disabilist. They are also not that historic, she tweeted them as a woman in her 50s old enough to know better, not as a youngster.

I think she accidentally done well out of the pandemic and has sort of moved away from comedy to some sort of political covid preacher and I think that got a lot of people's backs up as it was very 2 faced. For weeks her and her daughter have been all around the country doing work, meeting people - which is absolutely fair enough. But then knowing she had an ad campaign coming out started making very sad faced videos and saying how scared of covid she was and people shouldn't be meeting up. Quite hypocritical.

That aside, she very much plays the victim but some of her tweets and voice clips I've heard are just too much. Think the Scottish Gov teamed up with her too quickly without thinking it through.