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Owen Jones has relentlessly persecuted women online, including his own colleagues. An external investigator brought in by The Guardian has found him guilty of bullying a female columnist.

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ChristinaXYZ · 13/04/2022 10:30

"Owen Jones has relentlessly persecuted women online, including his own colleagues. An external investigator brought in by The Guardian has found him guilty of bullying a female columnist."

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ExMachinaDeus · 13/04/2022 14:15

And we now also have the obligatory multiple tweet thread (I mean, going on forevah) reversing and deflecting. He is really the one bullied by Ms Moore, doncha know.

I mean, really ...?

PronounssheRa · 13/04/2022 14:15

Summary: I admire much that private eye do, but on this I'm going to ignore them and the independent investigation and instead fling round accusations of homophobia and transphobia

Owen Jones has relentlessly persecuted women online, including his own colleagues. An external investigator brought in by The Guardian has found him guilty of bullying a female columnist.
nettie434 · 13/04/2022 14:14

@EmbarrassingHadrosaurus

Like Bercow and Patel, when do any of these people face consequences for their behaviour?
I would say that not getting a peerage or a Commons pass matters very much to John Bercow. OJ has deliberately encouraged pile ons against so many people women knowing that those he is complaining about have far fewer followers willing to take a stand against him but I do think his behaviour will catch up with him eventually.

Good prediction to think he might go to the US.

LittleWhingingWoman · 13/04/2022 14:13

I wonder if more women will come out to say he's done the same to them? This is one the Mail and Times need to pick up.

Titsflyingsouth · 13/04/2022 14:11

Good. He's a vicious little misogynist.

The Guardian used to be such a credible paper. I wouldn't wipe my arse with it now. Private Eye have covered it well.

ExMachinaDeus · 13/04/2022 14:10

Owen Jones has relentlessly persecuted women online, including his own colleagues. An external investigator brought in by The Guardian has found him guilty of bullying a female columnist

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

And even more

LOLZ

Nasty little twonk

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 13/04/2022 14:09

Foxkiller has me blocked. Any chance of a screenshot? TIA.

bellaiceberg · 13/04/2022 14:06

ive noticed people who are opposed to cancel culture are often fine with it when it's them doing the cancelling Grin

ive been annoyed with this little sprout since he associated 'chavs' with the working class. They may have WC heritage,, but quite not anymore...

RoyalCorgi · 13/04/2022 14:05

Talcum X was a nickname originally given to an American journalist called Shaun King. The joke made more sense when applied to King - with OJ, it's just the fact that he seems himself as a social justice warrior despite the fact that he is white, middle-class and never does anything more warrior-like than get into arguments on Twitter.

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Talcum%20X

RoyalCorgi · 13/04/2022 14:03

The fact that he's made an enemy of Benjamin Butterworth is revealing of just how awful OJ is. He dislikes people on his own side almost as much as people on the opposite side. I can't wait to see him fall out with Laurie Penny.

If ever Kath Viner grows a pair and sacks him, I'm not sure who else would employ him. An ability to get on with one's colleagues is surely a prerequisite in most jobs.

WinterTrees · 13/04/2022 14:00

I came here to post the Foxy Kimono tweet too, Pronouns.

Misogynists just don't see misogyny, it seems. Even when it's been pointed out by an external investigator. What a surprise.

PronounssheRa · 13/04/2022 13:55

twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1514222411792723968

Fox killer with a predictable take

BitchyHen · 13/04/2022 13:55

Enjoying this tweet

Owen Jones has relentlessly persecuted women online, including his own colleagues. An external investigator brought in by The Guardian has found him guilty of bullying a female columnist.
BernardBlackMissesLangCleg · 13/04/2022 13:54

he's trending. right up there with tupperware

unpleasant hypocrite that he is

Owen Jones has relentlessly persecuted women online, including his own colleagues. An external investigator brought in by The Guardian has found him guilty of bullying a female columnist.
Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 13/04/2022 13:44

@EmbarrassingHadrosaurus

what does the talcum reference mean?

It's a riff on Malcolm X.

Also referencing the fact that he is white. He also happens to be Oxbridge educated and from a solidly middle class background.
MangyInseam · 13/04/2022 13:44

@BreadInCaptivity

But I think it's good that The Guardian is taking action on this formally, even if they were forced by circumstances to do so. It might not make OJ take stock but it will be more difficult for him to claim he is being treated inappropriately.

What action are they actually taking though?

The PE report reads like they've commissioned the report then swept it under the rug.

I mean the report itself. We'll see what they do with it, and it may take some time I suspect before the public knows, but having an outside report is a very good thing. Had they simply taken action themselves it would have been easy for OJ to try and spin it.
Awkwardy · 13/04/2022 13:41

Benjamin Butterworth dislikes him too?? I'd have thought they'd get on well.

I think Buttergasp gets mistaken for OJ occasionally.

Two men whose over-valuation of their own talent is exceeded only by their dislike of women, especially successful women.

Thelikelylass · 13/04/2022 13:40

Interesting. There is a letter to Viner said to have been signed by over 100 women, it says that these women are horrified at his misogyny due to the tweet he made comparing anti-trans activists to anti-abortionist activists.

LizzieSiddal · 13/04/2022 13:39

Both Owen Jones and Private Eye are trending.

Talcolm seems a bit quiet. He’s been found out and I hope he’s shitting himself.

WinterTrees · 13/04/2022 13:31

Just scrolling through the twitter thread and came across a screenshot of that time last year when OJ retweeted a mother who was 'heart sick with worry' about her gender-questioning 16 year old daughter and unleashed a huge pile on of abuse.

twitter.com/tlitb/status/1447659952349265920

He's a bully alright.

BreadInCaptivity · 13/04/2022 13:28

But I think it's good that The Guardian is taking action on this formally, even if they were forced by circumstances to do so. It might not make OJ take stock but it will be more difficult for him to claim he is being treated inappropriately.

What action are they actually taking though?

The PE report reads like they've commissioned the report then swept it under the rug.

Thelikelylass · 13/04/2022 13:27

@EmbarrassingHadrosaurus

what does the talcum reference mean?

It's a riff on Malcolm X.

yes I saw that Talcum X mock up poster and got that but wondered why talcum. Was hoping it would be something more exciting! (well as exciting as talcum powder would ever get...)
BenCooperisaGod · 13/04/2022 13:26

Talcum is a reference to one of his many excellent nicknames. This one being Talcum X

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 13/04/2022 13:25

what does the talcum reference mean?

It's a riff on Malcolm X.

Thelikelylass · 13/04/2022 13:22

what does the talcum reference mean?
I have to say, I love being on MN, this section especially balanced and informative...then I look at twitter and even though I dislike Owen Jones heartily and had to define my view of him as a misogynist to a big fan of his (and I won!) - I am very glad I am not on twitter.
Some Twitter users swarm like shoals of fish from one pile on to another. I honestly think people like OJ must have their mental health damaged by being so excessively out there.
It isn't normal is it?

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