So John Terry considered Anton Ferdinand to be a c***, but as he was black he called him a black c***.

What sort of unsophisticated bubble do you live in?

Sorry if I'm coming across rude but I won't have my opinion undermined by a throwaway comment like 'succumbing to the insanity'.

George Floyd was killed by a incompetent policemen for trying to us a fake bill.

David Starkey resigned from his position as a unpaid honorary fellow, where you have to do no work, for saying:

"Slavery was not genocide otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived."

Not sure the consequences are the same either.

That’s extremely provocative statement and will take quite a long and contrived explanation along with a leap of faith to claim its non-offensive. In my view, most things that need a long explanation to justify their point of view are generally bulls***.

Its pretty obviously offensive, and I don’t think one of the best university in the world should be represented by someone prone to saying something so stupid.

On an change of topic. Oxford and Cambridge are full of rich kids sniffing drugs up their noises. A lot of people from poorer background sell those posh kids the drugs. Whilst I think it’s too late for most drug dealers and I couldn’t care less what happens to them, if you take away the demand, you take away the supply. If there’s no supply, maybe less young black kids will be enticed into crime, stabbed/arrested/hassled by the police.

If BLM stopped all this s*** about taking a knee, saying people’s names, and defunding the police, but instead said, we want rich white people to stop taking coke and tougher penalties for those found in possession of drugs for recreational use, then I might respect them.

I am not saying that at all, as should be apparent from what I actually wrote. I'm also not trying to argue about what the convention is either.
I am suggesting that there is a large degree of irrationality and illogical thinking regarding opinion and offence, as well as racial bias in what is and what is not acceptable.

You did.

Insults are insults but we are now supposed to believe that an insult that includes a racial/cultural/religious description is somehow magnitudes worse than one without.

I agree with this and all you’ve said after. Can’t be &rsed to explain personally. Saying ‘damn blacks’ is pretty damning. Oops. On the nights of the riots he said on Newsnight that ‘white chavs had turned black’, which is really the urban street part of young black Britain so he dodges this if he doesn’t mean that black people are trouble. But he then said David Lammy sounds white, which is inferring something along the lines of black people aren’t well spoken or he’s surprised if one is or something.

If he can’t find suitable words or fair opinions then should he be speaking in public as a Cambridge lecturer? Same for that Gopal tw@t.

An Honorary Fellow is not a job.

You don't get paid for it. You dont have to do any work for it. You get a fancy title in exchange for the university using your name to publicise itself.

This idiot [Link]
Lost her job at Deloitte because of saying something really really stupid on social media.

She would have had a clause in her contract not to bring Deloitte into disrepute and warned against posting such things on day one of her starting. Lots of people would have killed for her job, the company want to sell an exceptional service to their clients. They dont want to be represented by an idiot mouthing off on social media.

Admittedly it can be really harsh for sacking people over social media post, but both Starkey and the girl in the links went too far. We've got pretty strict employment laws in this country which make it very difficult to sack people.