But for Toby Young, it is possible that few of us would have noticed the appointment of a transgender model called Munroe Bergdorf, who resigned this morning as a member of Labour’s LGBT advisory board. Her appointment might have gone unnoticed, along with her past comments on social media, which included attacking what she described as ‘the racial violence of white people’ – adding:
‘Yes ALL white people. Because most of ya’ll don’t even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of colour. Your entire existence is drenched in racism.’
Bergdorf was quick to try to play victim this morning, claiming that her appointment had ‘turned into nasty tabloid fodder, blown out of all proportion’. The Guardian was quick to endorse her victimhood, attributing her demise as a Labour adviser to ‘attacks in the tabloid press and by Conservatives over comments she had made’.
Let’s leave aside the issue of how much longer the Guardian is going to try to use ‘tabloid’ as a byword for what it sees as bigoted opinion when the paper is now manifested in the very same printed form, but it seems a little pointless in the Left moaning about the unfairness of trawling through someone’s past social media posts for material with which to undermine them.
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