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Originally Posted by Damien
Here is the original article for the 'watermelon smiles' quote: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...tay-there.html
Nothing in the context absolves of him of it imo.
He didn't say the thing about 'blacks being at the other pole'. He published an article in the Spectator from Taki who did.
Can't be bothered to google the rest, although it is common knowledge he was fired from The Times for lying and fired from cabinet for lying about an affair isn't it? |
And here’s a report of him acknowledging the offence and apologising for it ... in 2006.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...23/london.race
As I said, I’m not beatifying him by any means. I am however demanding context. You may feel that the context of his original remark does not soften them; fair enough. I however feel that the fact the comments are 13 years old and were subsequently apologised is an important piece of context that nobody accusing BoJo seems in any hurry to acknowledge.
I am quite certain that you, and Denphone, would be personally aggrieved if somebody kept repeating errors of judgment you made more than a decade ago, without discussion of context, with the clear intention that other people should judge your character based solely on their list of your past failings regardless of any restorative action you may have taken.
Denphone, it seems to me, is always in a massive hurry to tut and shake his head at the moral vacuity of our political leaders, yet he thinks nothing of engaging in exactly the same morally dubious smears he accuses politicians of. And he is not alone - simply a recent example in this thread.
I could wish that this being a discussion forum, and not a party election leaflet, we could engage with the issues critically rather than just repeating personal attack lines, but it’s a faint hope indeed.