Yesterday.
On the same day that Sunday Times columnist Kevin Myers’ article was removed from the Sunday Times website, an apology was issued and it was announced that Mr Myers will not write for the newspaper again…
Rabbi Julia Neuberger and Sunday Times columnist, Kevin Myers, sit next to each other at the West Cork History Festival in Skibbereen.
Eek.
Via Jackie Keogh
Meanwhile…
It is instructive that #Myers ‘s misogyny generated less comment than his racism. But it is also true that they are mutually supporting.
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
Take this caricature, which he published in The Irish Times: “Fallopia Whynge, Yassar Arafat professor of Woman and Traveller Studies”.
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
More importantly his racism has always been expressed through highly gendered idioms of an effeminate West penetrated by racialised virility
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
His anti-immigrant articles are peppered with references to demographic decline, and the sexualised price to be paid – ‘black gang-rapes’
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
Of course, he also wrote about ‘burka-clad’ women in Dublin implicitly insulting other women as ‘immodest’ – we are in a ‘sartorial war’
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
In this kind of sexualised civilizationalism, women stand in for the nation under threat, and feminists are thus doubly ‘self-hating’.
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
Hence, “Amnesia Crawthump, Pol Pot Professor of Multicultural Studies’ – feminism & anti-racism are powerful, silencing orthodoxies.
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
When faced with such a powerful orthodoxy, who is the real victim? Left with nothing but ‘free speech’ to break new, stifling taboos.
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
In other words, Myers’ schtick is written from the ‘positionality’ of a victim, and victims must tell the uncomfortable truth.
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
With this fantasy structure in place ‘plain speaking’ about feminism&anti-racism is a way of clearing righteous space for racism & misogyny.
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
This is also a ‘populist’ logic – the elites are silencing me! – which is catnip to editors no longer sure of who their readership is.
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
It is also a fantasy structure available for free on an internet near you. The questions is…
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
Why so many Irish media editors though that this iteration of sexism/racism was worth paying so much for, for so long?
— Gavan Titley (@GavanTitley) July 31, 2017
Yikes.
Meanwhile…
Readers may wish to note the apologies issued yesterday by Martin Ivens, editor of The Sunday Times; and Frank Fitzgibbon, editor of the Irish edition of The Sunday Times, following the publication, and subsequent removal of Kevin Myers’ article…
Via Miqdaad Versi
Previously: Kevin’s Gate
Forgive my ignorance, but what does an editor have to do in de newspaper factory?
Apologise for proofing, approving and publishing hate speech that has been inflicted on Ireland for years, but only just discovered by the Brits.
I was told that numbers are so low that the don’t proof read everything. Senior journos probably get a bye on the proof reading as they are more trusted. I would imagine that is what happened here though going by his previous articles, possibly not.
I know a couple of contributors to the S Times and it is not uncommon for pieces to be in part rewritten or tweaked by their editor or by sub-eds. Fitzgibbon often comments to them on their pieces when he meets them in person so he keeps a close eye on contributors. I would be very surprised if he hadn’t had at least a quick read of Myers’ piece. Certainly the opinion editor would have read it (or at the very least scanned through it). They just didn’t think it would get this kind of reaction. It is possible they are short-staffed given the time of year but I would bet money that this piece was read by at least two people, one of whom was senior, and it was still published.
tis the person who says, ‘dont run that story, go with the cat in the tree’
Does Gavin Titley have a life?
As a dedicated opponent of the existence of Israel he has. Must have thought that all his birthdays had come at once at this chance to take a pop at Myers.
You guys are ‘Doing a Myers’ , play the ball not the man please….
That’s a neatly expressed sum up by Titley of that horrid toad Myers’ MO. It could have been written 20 years ago too
Myers was an early example of the important principle that just because someone is loudly anti-IRA that does not make them a good person. It’s nothing to be proud of that Ireland treated him as an intellectual of note for so long rather than a nasty crank.
Being able to form words of more than one syllable into coherent sentences he is sadly an intellectual by Irish standards. He’s done some good work highlighting the disgraceful treatment of our WWI heroes. However this column while making some salient points hits out at some sacred cows e.g. the “jews” or the “women” and as such he has to make way for a more bigoted online contrarian.
Ian O’Doherty currently spaffed into unconsciousness.
What a world you must live in where women and Jews are ‘sacred does ‘
‘Cows’ even.
oh, deer?
Doe!
I did consider placing “sacred cows” in ironic quotes Nigel maybe that wouldn’t have triggered you as much
Did you? How asinine.
no, bovine
It’s not either/or you can be both.
We are all people, un-separate….there are no sacred divisions. Nobody is better than anybody….. unless they are a dick head…and we’ll, sure that can be anyone
You can add to that his activities such as those at the West Brit History Festival who go way beyond casting a fresh eye at Irish history one hundred years ago to insist none of the leaders from that era were remotely Republican and wouldn’t it be great if we were part on the United Kingdom again? This stems from Myers having, I think, a grandfather who was in the RIC, who, you know, weren’t bad at all and were really like your local village bobby, according to Myers.
What’s this blatant playing the man and not the ball got to do with the real fact that the Irish heroes of WWI were disgracefully treated and this inconvenient heroism is almost completely brainwashed from contemporary Irish school history curricula?
that’s a very lazy comment about the RIC. some were indeed the village bobby arresting drunks and so on. if you wanted to stay in a rural area there wasn’t a huge amount of work around so some people joined the British army and some joined the RIC. some were involved in evictions and were despised, some turned a blind eye to republican activity and helped the war of Independence fighters, and some helped the crown forces, many joined the Garda Síochána after 1922. the force was three quarters catholic and largely drawn from the local population they policed just as it is today.
I do like the fact that the pompous windbag is seated in front of a portrait of Tom Barry.
Kevin Myers views on race, gender, identity, ethnicity and religion are as painful, predictable and constant as they have always been. Since he was released by the Irish Times, he has become an ever increasing awful caricature of his awful self. A deeply nauseating individual, of whom no one takes with more than a pinch of salt.
Gavin Titley’s views on same are also as painfully predictable and constant as they are obvious and derivative. His beleaguered outrage and polemic style are his own shtick.
In many ways he reminds me of Myers…
Myers is to journalism in many ways what Gavin Titley is to academia…
You can always depend on Gavan Titley to be outraged.
Indeed, himself, Rory Ahearne and Elaine Byrne are all cut from the same shabby and synthetic cloth.
There’s plenty of morons holding up Myers rear guard also. The Doherty fella is a beacon for hate print as is the other patently insidious hack, Barbara Mc’Carthy.
They should all get together and procreate!
Of all the great female contributors to the BBC, how in hell are Feltz and Winkleman the highest paid? Weird! And of course Myers was always just an attention seeking fascist.
How da’ rhymes with pup did this happen tho
Like Myers is high risk anyway
Was someone off on the beer?
Or were they all just bored and wanted a bitta viral action and attention from London.
That wouldn’t surprise me btw
how is this literal nazi not in jail? women shouldnt have to work the same hours as men or put in the same length of service that’s a misogynistic double standard, and saying that an ethnic group sticks together and looks after their own is hate speech, pure and simple, and is dangerously offensive.