1/ An alarming number of people are losing their jobs at the moment – or being suspended from them, pending investigations – because they& #39;ve criticised some aspect of the Black Lives Matter movement.
4/ Stu Peters, a Manx Radio presenter, has been suspended after he challenged the concept of "white privilege" in a debate with a caller to his radio show https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-52936980">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...
5/ Martin Shipton, chief reporter of the Western Mail, has been forced to step down as a Wales Book of the Year Judge after he complained that the Black Lives Matter protest in Cardiff broke the Welsh Government& #39;s social distancing rules https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52940249">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-5...
6/ You may disagree profoundly with what these men have said. But you should defend their right to say it without losing their careers. As George Orwell said, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear."
9/ Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, has been forced to resign because a headline on an article in the paper about building destroyed in the riots read “Buildings Matter, Too.” https://www.inquirer.com/news/stan-wischnowski-resigns-philadelphia-inquirer-20200606.html">https://www.inquirer.com/news/stan...
23/ David Shore, a 28-year-old data scientist, has been fired for tweeting an article by a biracial Princeton African-American studies scholar suggesting that rioting is politically counterproductive. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/06/case-for-liberalism-tom-cotton-new-york-times-james-bennet.html">https://nymag.com/intellige...
27/ UKTV, which is owned by BBC Studios, has just deleted & #39;The Germans& #39; from its streaming service, a Fawlty Towers episode in which a character called "the Major" is chastised for using the N-word. https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/5804/fawlty-towers-removed-by-uktv/">https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/5...
32/ Tiffany Riley, the headmistress of a high school in Windsor, Vermont, has been forced to take "administrative leave" after writing a Facebook post in which she said, “Just because I don’t walk around with a BLM sign should not mean I am a racist.” https://vtdigger.org/2020/06/14/windsor-principal-on-leave-after-black-lives-matter-comments-stir-controversy/">https://vtdigger.org/2020/06/1...
35/ Tom McGrath, the editor of @phillymag, is "stepping down" after staff sent a memo to parent company, Metrocorp, pointing out the magazine “has not taken sufficient action as a publication to combat systemic racism... " https://thegrio.com/2020/06/17/philly-mag-editor-resigns/">https://thegrio.com/2020/06/1...
40/ Ben Mulroney, husband of Jessica Mulroney (see upthread), is "stepping down" as host of eTalk on CBC after his wife lost her own job as a presenter on CBC (and was disowned by "best friend" Meghan Markle) after an insta spat with a black influencer. https://thepostmillennial.com/ben-mulroney-resigns-from-etalk">https://thepostmillennial.com/ben-mulro...
42/ Unilever is renaming Fair & Lovely, a skin-lightening cream that has been criticised for promoting negative stereotypes around dark skin tones. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53178088">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...
45/ The Dixie Chicks have changed their name to The Chicks because "Dixie" refers to the southern states of the US that broke away to form the new Confederate States of America. A statement on their website reads: "We want to meet this moment." https://news.sky.com/story/the-dixie-chicks-change-their-name-over-backlash-12015000?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter">https://news.sky.com/story/the...
48/ Jill Snyder, who has served as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland for 23 years, has been forced to resign after cancelling an exhibition dealing with police killings of black and Latino boys and men. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/arts/design/moca-cleveland-director-resigns-.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/1...
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