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How Terribly Sad For Alistair Stewart After Serving Itn As A Newsreader
That he’s been forced to step down because of a misjudgement when he called someone and ‘angry ape’ on Twitter
The recipient said he was racist and so ends an unblemished 30 odd years as a newsreader
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The recipient said he was racist and so ends an unblemished 30 odd years as a newsreader
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"...he’s been forced to step down because of a misjudgement when he called someone and ‘angry ape’ on Twitter" He didn't call someone an 'angry ape'. He used a well-known Shakespeare quote which essentially says a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The quote has the words 'angry ape' in them, but it is a leap too far to suggest he called the other...
08:00 Thu 30th Jan 2020
Bobbisox, going by his avatar. Yes, he could have been a person of any race or nationality pretending to be black but why would anyone assume that he was using a fake avatar? Why take that risk? Stewart is well aware of current thinking, what makes the news and he has probably reported on footballers, monkey gestures and bananas. He cannot plead ignorance. He certainly should not have been making personal remarks when using 'itn' as part of his Twitter identity.
A normal person doesn't see any risk because there should be none because any issue is with the offended and that should not force the innocent to go around 'stepping on eggshells' all their life trying to spot pitfalls in communications etc.. It's a very dodgy society that insists they should. Folk who play the race card inappropriately are the ones who should be let go lest they bring further shame on their employer.
My pedantic penneth of the day: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing is not a Shakespearean quote, its from a poem by Alexander Pope:
"A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”
"A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”
This is the quote.
Merciful heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Splits the unwedgeable and gnarlèd oak
Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,
Dress'd in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd—
His glassy essence—like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Measure For Measure Act 2, scene 2, 114–123
Merciful heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Splits the unwedgeable and gnarlèd oak
Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,
Dress'd in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd—
His glassy essence—like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Measure For Measure Act 2, scene 2, 114–123
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