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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
The specific part Mr Stewart tweeted is a short speech by a character called Isabella, who has come to plead with Angelo for her brother's life after he is sentenced to die.
Angelo refuses her request, and in response to him she says: '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'
Angelo refuses her request, and in response to him she says: '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'
Using Bill Shakespeare's almost indecipherable quotes is not, imho, an 'appropriate way' to get one's point understood. I'm in total agreement that Stewart should not have felt 'forced' to step down. But, as an articulate and well educated person of a certain age, he really should have thought better of using the word 'ape' in his response. Whether or not the guy's avatar was showing him to be a black person or not, the chances of him not being white English are pretty high.
//Normal people don't go around quoting Shakespeare at every given opportunity. Only those who like to believe that, by doing so, they are intellectually above the person they are speaking to.//
Lol
I often mutter, 'Cry Havoc and let loose the dogs of War ' or 'Once more into the breech' when I press the 'Answer Now' button
Lol
I often mutter, 'Cry Havoc and let loose the dogs of War ' or 'Once more into the breech' when I press the 'Answer Now' button
Yes, Retro, and whenever i'm out 'n' about and someone asks me how I am, I always reply; "I'm so weary with disaster, tugged with fortune, that I would set my life on any chance to mend it or be rid of it." (Lines I had to learn when playing First Murderer in our school production of Macbeth - a million years ago).
"...as an articulate and well educated person of a certain age, he really should have thought better of using the word 'ape' in his response. Whether or not the guy's avatar was showing him to be a black person or not, the chances of him not being white English are pretty high."
Whoa - that'a a pretty bloody big slippery slope to be going down, isn't it?
Whoa - that'a a pretty bloody big slippery slope to be going down, isn't it?
The quote isn't racist. Here's a handy translation of it: https:/
Alastair Stewart has stepped down after an "error of judgement". The error of judgement was getting involved in the debate at all, when he is so high profile. He didn't have to use his public persona, he could have used an anonymous Twitter handle to debate ... but he chose to use @alstewitn and then get drawn into expressing opinions. That was the error of judgement, not the tweet itself, if you ask me.
Alastair is 67, has had a great career and probably thought to himself ... you know what, stuff it.
Alastair Stewart has stepped down after an "error of judgement". The error of judgement was getting involved in the debate at all, when he is so high profile. He didn't have to use his public persona, he could have used an anonymous Twitter handle to debate ... but he chose to use @alstewitn and then get drawn into expressing opinions. That was the error of judgement, not the tweet itself, if you ask me.
Alastair is 67, has had a great career and probably thought to himself ... you know what, stuff it.
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