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"I suppose this comment will be considered a racist aside" writes Rod Liddle. 
But I suppose that this must not have been considered a racist aside by the sub-editors or editors of the Sunday Times, comment pages of the year.
Rod Liddle once got into trouble over his "monkeymfc" Millwall talkboard alter ego
* denied comments were his
* then said "most" were, but not the overtly racist ones ("I may be a C-word but I'm not a racist C-word")
* later defended making the remarks he'd "vehemently" denied
* denied comments were his
* then said "most" were, but not the overtly racist ones ("I may be a C-word but I'm not a racist C-word")
* later defended making the remarks he'd "vehemently" denied
Thread on those shifting fibs over what he had posted online. Liddle was a frontrunner for Independent editorship when online comments (which seemed rather more overtly racist & personally misogynistic than his anti-PC media persona) became public
Its an unusually meta version of: You can't even (knowingly) use racist asides in a newspaper column these days as a wind-up without people considering it racist.
The Sun apologised for & ditched Kelvin Mackenzie, while insisting racial trope was inadvertent (as unaware the target was mixed race). Rod Liddle use of a racial trope is obviously v.knowing, but maybe Sunday Times is more open to publishing racist jokes
theguardian.com/media/2017/apr…
theguardian.com/media/2017/apr…
The Sun apologised for & ditched Kelvin Mackenzie, while insisting racial trope was inadvertent (as unaware the target was mixed race). Rod Liddle use of a racial trope is obviously v.knowing, but maybe Sunday Times is more open to publishing racist jokes
theguardian.com/media/2017/apr…
theguardian.com/media/2017/apr…
Liddle was lucky that, by initially fibbing about the 'monkeymfc' comments he posted, he deflected attention from some of the most racist (& the most sexist ones). Several seemed too full-on for newspapers to report what they said. One example.
