Actor and activist John Connors at the ‘March for Innocence’ on July 11
Last night.
Previously: Innocence And Experience
Update:
I very much appreciate the statement and email from @johnconnors1990 The matter between us is fully resolved as far as I’m concerned. Take care of yourself John. https://t.co/22dc9St6Ri
— Roderic O’Gorman TD (@rodericogorman) July 20, 2020
This morning.
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That’s quite the volte-face.
Prima facie case
A u-turn Barry Cowen would be proud of.
Zing!
Fair dos. For your penance eat humble pie.
Fair play John.
Fair play to him, a sincere and proper apology.
In other news, his latest film is out next week, so review copies going out to journos later this week I’d imagine…
A very believable apology. Well said
While I did always think Connors was merely manipulated and radicalized (in a manner of speaking) by the Pot Bellied Goblin Barrett and Farage’s bachelor ex-lap dog, it just goes to show how easy it is to use and abuse someone who is fragile. It is still certainly used to a great extent by Youth Defence who have ruined some people’s lives and their relationships with their families.
In this regard, my real ire is directed at Grift Media and their penchant for tabloid right wing populist smear and smut and wherever you find smoke and mirrors, bungled smear and manufactured polemics, you’ll find a certain McJerk always McLurking in the background stirring the pot, before it inevitably boils over onto himself. One of these days, he’ll go too far..
mcgawk seems content enough to gossip from the sidelines at this point. he has his ‘alternative media’ platform and is gonna run with that. so while i don’t expect them to start actively whipping people up a la G*mma and the likes, they are more than happy to launder stories/rumours for them too with the defence of plausible deniability.
@class wario McJerk never really grew up or left student politics, a time when he spectacularly imploded his own political career. Years later he tries the same tactics of gutter insinuation and polemics for the sake of I don’t know what with the same bungled results.
As my Gran would, there is a “want” in him.
I dunno
The lad must have something to offer
Otherwise he wouldn’t be engaged, in a professional capacity like
By these various well funded special interest narrow minded groups.
Like, as an eg
That fake nurse/ porter thing with that lad Patton back in the Repeal campaign
If I was caught out as rotten as that I’d probably never work again
tl;dr
Basically “Soz, loads”
typical alt-right attention span
TLDR –
Traveller Lost Direction, Repents
too late, damage retained.
…the dog ate my homework…
this is important.
This is happening more and more and acknowledging mistakes is the cure rather than doubling down.
NYT have really intriguing podcast on the 1st hand experience of being online radicalized
So many folk are swayed, led astray, and are targetted for this
https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole
thanks for this, it’s not just children who are targeted online, but lonely vunerable frightened people
This
And in its own way it’s another form of abuse
Oh this podcast sounds interesting. Thanks!
nice to see. not usual to see genuine apologies anymore. though damage has been done and id be more sceptical/cautious of the guy in future.
While the apology is welcome, this is not the first time Mr Connors has been involved with those people- he done an interview with one some time back. His defense appears to be that now finds their views repugnant but this has obviously been a very recent revelation because he knew what he was dealing with a long time ago- either that or he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Gaining a homophobic reputation is one thing but throwing the offensive slur linking homosexuality and pedophilia is another level all together. Good luck trying to find work in the entertainment industry after that.
I hope he backs up his words with actions.
A rarity these days: a heartfelt apology.
I’m really, really, really sorry you feel this way
to be fair, i’d heard he’d made an apology and was expecting one of the ‘sorry if you were offended’ variety but that comes across as heartfelt and genuine. hopefully he overcomes these demons of his.
It’s a full apology, I’ll give him that. Not sure I would believe every aspect of it, but if he means to continue in a more understanding way without spouting the kind of nonsense he has before, then people should accept it and move on.
There is nothing truthful or honest about this ‘apology’. He has just realised that people in the acting profession won’t work with him in the future and he is desperately trying to save his career.
+1
He must have learned from Glinner how to not quite throw your career away
Man realise he has been hanging around with far right people who generally detest his community.
Wow, did he not know who they were before getting up on stage?
Methinks he did…..
Nice update, a bit of class from R O’Gorman, hopefully he has also learned a lesson from this that being extremely quiet and having the likes of Hazel Chu fight your battles doesn’t yield good results.
In fairness, I believe him and accept his apology is sincere.
However he should have named the very people and groups he’s been knocking around with for a number of years up to this point, rather than just allude to them.
That would have taken real courage, and demonstrated his contrition far more accurately. IMO anyway.
However as someone who got targeted and singled out for a dose of cancel culture treatment as a result of my comments here in support of Minister Roderic O’Gorman, maybe I’m a bit to close to be reasonably independent.
In any event, John Connors has changed his tune, and that statement can’t have been an easy task for him. And that’s not nothing.
So for that I thank him, and I wish him well
who called you out vanessanelle? and with a username like that – they should know better
I’d say there’s a trail of dead avatars all over Pimlico…
Not saying who
But a group I was very visibly involved with asked for all mention of them including pics etc to be removed
And cited specifically
My support of Minister O’Gorman
I knew at the time they were got at
I’d seen it before
Mainly via the late Frilly Keane columns and other stuff
And I’m certain this group isn’t the only one ‘they’ attempted to provoke and wind up
I suppose I’ll know more as the year rolls on and the COVID-19 era starts to come to an end
I bet there was a solicitor involved somewhere in that apology
Fair play to him for apologising and same to Roderic for accepting.
Matter resolved in a nice grown up way.
I was looking forward to Roderic’s video calling him out, shìte in a bucket style.
calling him out to a dance-off
Roll of lino under his not-pointing at camera arm…..
The Left are broadly in favour of accepting John’s apology. If John was a middle class landlord, they wouldn’t be so concilatory. Bigotry of low expectations.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2019/09/04/your-socialist-paradise-sounds-lovely/
Maybe instead of fervently supporting him off any chance he got, Terry might have tried to warn him bout the path he was clearly being led down.
‘John Connors Terminated’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es6R47ZNnoM
Gearóid Murphy – Moderate centrist journalist
Listening to Gearoid, I was reminded of the phrase “Democracy dies in the dark” – attributed to a ruling by Judge Damon Keith in a First Amendment court case.
Source:
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2019/04/28/detroit-judge-damon-keith-who-coined-democracy-dies-in-the-dark-dead-at-96