and then, rage

[aumentou]

I've just been away for a couple of days, visiting my dying grandmother in Wales.  There was nine inches of snow yesterday and another nine overnight, and the house didn't have any electricity (and had an electric hob).  We weren't close, but it was stressful and painful.  Not rage inducing, obviously, although watching my father make excuses for her bullying wasn't nice.

Then today I got back and found out that a trans woman committed suicide after being hounded in the daily mail by Richard Littlejohn.  I also discovered that the press complaints commission is doing nothing at all about Julie Burchill and her outbreak of hate speech earlier this year.  I gather some people are worried about the prospect of an independant public body imposing rules on the press.  Personally I'm in favour.  Watching the press abide by guidelines (except when they feel like breaking htem) that don't do anything at all (broken or not) isn't my idea of effective regulation.

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[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

I wondered if you'd seen that clusterfuck. There's a petition to get him fired, not that I expect it to do any good.

And you know full well that people who've been bullied their whole lives by their families will justify it time and again. My good friend Laura does. I don't even have to say anything anymore - she'll tell me what they've done, then excuse it and say "but things have been pretty good lately really" meaning compared to when she was growing up.

*hugs*

[child-of-chance.livejournal.com]

I missed most of the LIttlejohn shit through being too ill to read, but Tom told me about it. Littlejohn and Burchill are pond slime. He should be fired. But probably, instead, is revelling in his notoriety :-( I'm old enough to remember when hate speech against black people was common, though, and slowly it changed. The dinosaurs get old and die.

I'm sorry about your grandmother. In both ways. *hugs*