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JOURNALIST KEVIN MYERS has spoken out for the first time since his controversial Sunday Times column was criticised – and admitted that he deserved to be fired.
Speaking on Today with Sean O’Rourke on RTE Radio 1 this morning, Myers issued an apology for the column, which has been branded as “sexist” and “anti-Semitic”.
“I am the author of that article, I am the author of my own misfortunes, I am the master of my soul,” Myers told presenter Sean O’Rourke.
“I must answer for what I have done.”
The opinion piece, which appeared in the Irish print edition, was critical of recent calls for equal pay for men and women in media organisations after the BBC published its list of highest-paid stars and only one woman made the top 10.
On Sunday afternoon, the online version of the article was removed, and both editors of the British and Irish editions issued apologies.
Myers told O’Rourke today that he had been informed by The Sunday Times in London that he had been fired from the publication on Sunday afternoon.
O’Rourke asked Myers if he believed he should have been fired, to which Myers said:
“I think so because of the impossible situation they were placed in. The manner in which I was disposed of was wrong. It could have been done more gently and I think I could’ve been treated better.”
In the article, which is entitled “Sorry, ladies – equal pay has to be earned”, Irish journalist Myers argued that men may get paid more for a variety of reasons:
Is it because men are more charismatic performers? Because they work harder? Because they are more driven? Possibly a bit of each.
In a later section, the article highlights that the two highest-paid female BBC presenters are Jewish.
‘I’m not misogynistic’
Myers issued an apology to the women, Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz, over the column.
“I am very, very sorry to them, I really mean it, I’m not rescuing anything as far as I can see, it’s over for me.
“I am issuing an apology for no other reason than the contrition of the hurt I have caused them,” he said.
Yesterday, BBC presenter Vanessa Feltz described the column as “horrifying racism”.
Speaking on BBC Radio London, Feltz questioned how “something so blatantly racist” was allowed in the newspaper.
“When someone alerted me to it… I couldn’t believe such a thing had been printed. It is absolutely gratuitous, not cleverly done, it’s blatant racism. When you see it like that it’s very horrifying,” she said.
“The editor personally rung me to apologise. He said he was horrified.”
This morning, Myers went on to deny that he is misogynistic or anti-Semitic.
I’m not misogynistic, I’m a critic of political feminism but I’m not misogynistic.
“[Misogyny] is a simple way of labelling someone who means you don’t have to listen to what they have to say.
I don’t believe in equality.
“I’m talking about the issue of when feminists talk about in the BBC who believe the woman making the tea or cleaning the floor isn’t equal to the star presenter.”
Earlier in his chat with O’Rourke, Myers said that he was a “great admirer of the Jewish people”, stating that he thinks “they are the most gifted people who have ever existed on this planet”.
Yesterday, the Press Ombudsman confirmed to TheJournal.ie that four complaints were lodged in relation to the column.
A spokesperson for the Independent Press Standards Organisation, the independent regulator for the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK, also confirmed to TheJournal.ie that it received a total of 25 complaints.
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So if this is all Myers fault can someone explain to me what exactly the editor of the Sunday Times actually does? Surely someone in the paper read, saw nothing wrong with his column and then allowed it to be printed? How is this then Myers fault?
I see above the editor was “horrified” and personally rang one of the women to apologise. How can you be horrified when you obviously saw nothing wrong and allowed it to be printed in the first place?
@ATL Photography: Ass covering from libel suit.
@Niall Sullivan: I don’t agree, I think it’s fair enough to apologise – it obviously slipped by him, it’s not something he’d stand behind, and he did stand up and apologise. All credit to that editor for acknowledging it and taking his share of responsibility. We read too much rubbish from hospitals, for example, when more serious mistakes are made, and all the people affected want is an honest admission that a mistake happened on their watch, and that it won’t keep happening again to others. Instead we get silence and legal formalities. I think it’s refreshing to have the fact that he was open about his part and personally contacted the people singled out. To me that’s reasonable behaviour on his part and he did a decent thing.
@Fiona Fitzgerald: he basically threw KM under the bus.
@Squarepeg01: Where he belongs.
Says it all really. If you have an opinion different from the gender fascists and social police, you’re “branded” as misogynist and anti Semite. You’re no platformed, and called filth by the twitter mob. This, ladies and gentlemen is modern liberalism, feminism, whatever you want to call it. It’s the creeping far left ideology whose end goal will be to police your thoughts, once the technology becomes available of course.
@50 Pence: they already seek to police thought through “hate crime” legislation. Blasphemy laws for the 21st century millennial progressives.
@50 Pence: Companies exercising their right to fire people who damage the corporate image is oppression and the liberal Marxist (or whatever other Breitbart buzzwords you wanna spout) agenda? Wow…you all really drank the kook aid didn’t ye? Times fired him…Times had every right to fire him. I’ll give him the same advice all you chuckleheads gave me and other young people when austerity hit. He should suck it up, stop crying about it, and get a new job or learn a new skill. No special consideration for hack journalists…since you all sound like you’re from the “Millennials/Liberals feel entitled to everything for free” crowd, how about this. Myers isn’t entitled to a job. Welcome to the real world snowflake.
@Bryan Kelly: why was the editor spared his job?
@Bryan Kelly: here, here
@Brian Morris: because he didn’t write it
@50 Pence: Broflake, you triggered?
@DaisyChainsaw: I am loving this new broflake word. It’s brilliant.
He is guilty of stereotyping but the antisemitism charge does not stick.Myers was one of few Irish journalists to question the narrow narrative of the Israel Palestinian conflict. If anything Myers deserves credit for daring to question the consensus.
@Joe Caulfield: Well that’s all forgotten – his legacy now is as an anti-Semite.
(whether he is, or isn’t is entirely irrelevant’)
@Joe Caulfield: You do know he denied the holocaust?
@Joe Caulfield: exactly
@Thunder Snowman: no he didn’t. Not in any way that matters.
@Squarepeg01: not in any way that matters? You know that means you’re saying he did do it but not in an important way?
@Dave O Keeffe: there’s no point in talking to you because you just don’t pay attention to what I’ve already explained. As I said before, he didn’t dispute that millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis. He disputed the 6m figure. He also went into the etymology of the word ‘holocaust’. Is any of this the part of the Holocaust that matters to you? Would it matter less if the figure were 4m? So no, he didn’t deny the most important aspect of Holocaust historiography. You can accuse him of being pedantic but not of anti-semitism.
Five to six people according to Myers saw the column before it was published http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kevin-myers-five-or-six-other-people-saw-controversial-sunday-times-column-before-it-went-to-print-35988595.html so why aren’t they been punished as well?
@Lara Croft: Up to the Times. Strange how you’re all so suddenly against companies being able to choose who they employ.
Sean ORourke never asked him and Kevin Myers member mentioned his defence of Israel……That is the irony in all this…..British Jewish groups silenced one of the few consistent friends of Israel. In Irish media…..If he had said Cavan people are well paid in the Irish media because they are good with asking for more money and never spend it…..Would he have been fired…..
@John003: Cavan people good with money, you’re just taking the beeswax there.
@John003: The Lidl ad with the Cavan man should also be considered a hate crime
@John003:
Six million Cavan people were not wiped out by the Nazis, who used the supposed thrift of the Jewish community as propaganda to provoke hatred of them. It is always alarming in debates like this to see how rife antisemitism is;
Why is he still being given a platform??
I suspect this won’t hurt his career and he’ll be back in some format somewhere else.
@Abbi Cranky: Probably because he was apologising. Should everyone you disagree with be banished forever?
@Abbi Cranky: What a surprise. Liberal wants to silence someone you don’t agree with
@Lara Croft: Well said Laura.
@Lara Croft: do I not?
I’m sure I pay my licence fee and am entitled to an opinion
@Lara Croft: You’re all so sensitive today. Apparently asking a question is “decid(ing) who gets a platform now? Oh no! Someone doesn’t like what this guy said, this is an attack and on free speech (who do you folks never know what free speech is?) and evidence of the liberal agenda. Much discrimination, many persecution. Get over it buttercups. Times exercised their right to fire someone for being a douche and marring the brand’s image. 100% legal. Cry me a river.
@Abbi Cranky: Should he be silenced as a dissenter? He’s a journalist, and quite a good one normally. Where does it say people don’t have the right to be wrong?
@Abbi Cranky: Of course you are. Everyone’s welcome to their own opinion. But if you’re paying a licence fee to read the Journal, you’re being conned. Got to beware of those nameless third-party websites!
@Fiona Fitzgerald: Aww babes, thanks for looking out for me but your glib concern is misplaced, he was given a platform on RTÉ radio not one on The Journal …
I happen to like Kevin Myers.I don’t agree with everything he says,but on the whole,i like his writing.
Terrible man, but at least he didn’t apologise in light pink text on an all white background.
Eh, Leo? Eh?
I read the article, I honestly don’t know what the uproar is about, unless it’s Kevin Myer’s style of writing is causing angst!
Burn him at the stake with all the other witches. And ban free speech in case someone is offended. Here’s a mad idea, you don’t like Myers? Do what I do and don’t read his rants…
….but, but…. he said that the Jews are careful with money and I’m deeply offended!
Burn him! Burn him!
@Paul J. Redmond: Lmao I love how it’s always you dudes that overreact to everything and get offended coz you’re always the ones accusing everyone else of doing it. Remember when Clarkson got fired…for punching someone at work….and it wasn’t even the first time? And then the BBC got bomb threats because of it? Nah…employers are allowed 100% to terminate the employment of those who abuse colleagues or being ill-repute to the company. You’re probably the type of guy who cheers fast food companies firing employees for eating a chip past the sell time, but heavens forbid your favourite journalist face repercussions for his actions. Ye sensitive little snowflake.
@Bryan Kelly: clearly sarcasm is lost on you. Did you actually read what I said or just jump to conclusions after the first line? I thoroughly dislike Myers opinions and did mention that clearly. However I always defend free speech and hate seeing people gagged. Also clearly spelled out. Anything else you don’t understand and I’ll continue to spell it out and spoon feed you?
Mr Myers is a good journalist, and This whole fedora is a threat to fee speech and yet more of the typical over reaction of the new “evenly balanced. Chip on both shoulders” media driven PC Fascism that has taken hold these days !
@Randal McNally: A journalist he is not. I don’t think he’s done a single bit of evidence-based reporting in his life.
He gives his opinions on various topics, ones he is often gravely misinformed about.
@Malachi: then you haven’t read his pen-pictures of Winston Churchill or TE Lawrence or, dare I bring it up, 1916. Always idiosyncratic but always full of rare details that could only come from wide reading.
@Squarepeg01: I’ve read his stuff on Churchill – not awful, he’s spot on about war mongering but his odd WWII projections often let him down.
Myers’ problem is that for every halfway decent article he writes, there’s a few about not bothering to help African children (because they’re only good for spreading AIDS anyway), defending the Black and Tans, distorting Holocaust history and denying basic science.
@Malachi: I don’t recall his articles on the B&T. I do, however, remember finding his views on evolution strange, but he appeared to walk some of them back in a later article which he wrote after interviewing Richard Dawkins. As for Africa, isn’t it strange that it’s still a basket case after so many years of focused charity and development and despite all its famines and wars it still manages to double its population every X number of years? I get it – his polemical style is a turnoff for many people, but he is drawing attention to important issues like this if people can bring themselves to look past it. He does not strike me as a malicious man.
Per capital jews are 100 times more likely than not jewa to become billinaires. So yes, they are pretty good with money
And yes, inequality is not proof of inequity.
These things should be obvious.
@M: “Per capital [sic]” Jews are also much more likely to win Nobel prizes for science and medicine.
Why is the money thing always brought up instead? It’s an anti-semitic little jibe that portrays Jews as shifty and miserly.
@Malachi: that’s your projection. Nothing wrong with earning lots of money if you do it honourably.
@Squarepeg01: Absolutely. I agree that there’s nothing wrong with honourably earning money.
However, very often, the people that use this trope are not in the same camp. There is a very nasty undercurrent in political discourse that believe some sort of ‘Jewish banking cartel’ run the world behind the scenes. Plenty of pseudo-intellectuals will list off facts about the number of Jews running ‘evil’ corporations, for example.
Anti-semitism is one of the more repulsive prejudices as it has this conspiratorial element. It’s also a destructive prejudice – demonstrated forcefully by the NSDAP in the 30s and 40s and today by Islamist factions.
@Malachi: granted, but you give that meme more power by making it taboo. Myers was making light of it, not using it to cudgel the Jews. For God’s sake, he was probably relying on his track record of being so pro-semitic that it never entered his head that someone would accuse him of the opposite.
@Malachi: didn’t occurr to me that to think of it as a bad thing…but I suppose I can see how it would get old. I only assumed it reflected highly of their intelligence/ culture/ work ethic. I mean there’s something going on to make jews disproportionately successful, hard to see it as an insult.
@M: but I only mentioned it to show that the two main things people are getting bent out of shape about are both, almost trivially easy to show to be true.
@M: I’m not saying you had any bad intentions at all.
I’m saying this trope of the rich Jew is used very effectively by vociferous anti-semites to drum up hatred towards Jews who they perceive as too powerful and influential. It’s the idea of the rich self-interested Jews running the show behind the scenes that got so many Germans on board during the rise of the Nazi regime and it’s still used as a stick to beat Jews with in the Arab world today.
I think Myers should’ve known better but it’s not that big of a deal. I thought his terrible article on the Holocaust was much more worthy of scrutiny.
@Squarepeg01: You say I’m to blame somewhat for making it taboo, I’ll argue he takes a bigger share of the blame for dredging up such a rotten stereotype in the first place. A man of his alleged education should know better, don’t you think?
@Malachi: not you in particular. I probably should have used the word ‘one’.
Someone seems to have panicked on Sunday. Did not think it through and fired him too early. Probably figures in the UK who did not know his record on the state of Israel etc.
They baulked at the anticipated PC moral indignation tidal wave.
Turns it came not from the Jewish community but from the usual suspects who despise both Myres and Israel.
Opportunity not to be missed.
Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! Bringing back the public confessions from the good old days of Uncle Joe’s purges! Happy days in the new USSR!!
Toxic JK Rowling should take note, that’s how you apologise like a grown up.
Did someone organise a protest yet? We can burn effigies of Myers & hold a candle light vigil for the oppressed women of the BBC.
I’m fair worried about the future of intelligent discourse and free speech. I find it ironic that the Jews at one time were victims of the dreadful Gestapo who silenced anyone with differing views with a firing squad or worse and were incarcerated in horrendous camps now seek to limit discourse that they perceive disagreeable to them and keep Palestinians in interment camps. Several races have had an event similiar to the holocaust. It’s not a uniquely Jewish horror story. They have moved on, commemorating the event but not letting it cloud their future. The Jews need to move on too and not be defined by that terrible period.
@Shane Kelly: What?
@Shane Kelly: Reason British Jews were so incensed is because in London and .Manchester a lot of attacks on Jewish schools and synagogues…..Again the irony is these attacks are motivated by hatred of Israel and ignorance about Israel……Both of which Kevin Myers has written about….
@Shane Kelly: I disagree. There have been several occurrences of genocide historically. There has only been one instance that I’m aware of where people in several countries were targeted for murder based solely on their religious beliefs. This was a ‘western’ governments policy, and it was carried out on an industrial scale with cold efficiency.
I don’t think that Myers is consciously misogynistic. I think that Myers subscribes to an outmoded and empirically unsustainable notion that women are inferior to men in some general sense. Variations within the same gender are more significant than variations between genders.
Fair dues to Myers for at least partly recognising his error. He allows for his contribution in contrast to those who seek absolutely to exculpate him.
I don’t believe that women are inferior to men. Individual variations in capacity and capability are vastly more significant than over generalised extrapolations from insufficient and selectively chosen evidence.
Ireland does not need its own Katie Hopkins. I’m all for free speech, but the tactics with his kind of journalism is painfully clear; grabbing attention and causing outrage, rather than asking questions or provoking debate.
This stuff is the journalism equivalent of the Jeremy Kyle show. Bilge.
@Andy Hynes: It’s better that the PC snowflake stuff that we get from most the others in the broadcast and written media !
@Randal McNally: no it’s not. You’re using one extreme to justify the other. Try looking in the middle, where journalists try to write outside of their blinkered view if the world.
Jewish people are no better than nor no worse than other non Jewish people.
Myers reads fat too much into religious, cultural, ethnic and gender differences.
Human beings are variable and individual. National, cultural, religious and gender based differences are insignificant compared to human variation and variability on an individual basis.
Myers reads far too much into differences and draws exaggerated and distorted conclusions.
@Tony Daly: and yet probability theory would reliably predict certain outcomes are more likely for some groups than for others.
@Squarepeg01: you actually don’t understand probability theory to make such a remark.
@Tony Daly: Charles Murray’s Bell Curve would probably support my position more than yours
And now Myarse is perfectly placed to be the victim in the whole scenario. Well played!
@DaisyChainsaw: or maybe he is genuinely sorry. If he hadn’t apologized you’d be critical too.
@DaisyChainsaw: Well, the victim bandwagon is certainly one we all know that the hypocritical leftys are the expert at.
What happened to the Je suis Charlie Hebdo ideology? Is free speech only to be allowed or protected when it doesn’t “offend” the sacred cow (no pun intended lest I offend) of feminism or perceived anti-semitism? When the Jewish Council of Ireland does not take offence or condemn KM for the article it’s a bit rich that the chattering classes need to feel offended on behalf of the Jewish people. Double standards by any measure. Classic left ideology – I’ll defend your right to free speech as long as you are saying something I agree with
@Gerard Corcoran: Your use of Charlie Hebdo as an analogy made me gag.
How dare you say that the Times deciding that they no longer needed the services of a bottom-tier columnist is in any way comparable to the wholesale slaughter of cartoonists by religious lunatics in the streets of Paris.
I’m shocked anyone could be so callous.
@Malachi: not so. CH was a leftwing satirical mag that skewered every sacred cow going, just like KM only they are on opposite sides of the political spectrum. By taking umbrage at the parallel you are turning their paying the ultimate price into a sacrament. But don’t feel baf – the reigious instinct is hardwired into us and will come out in unexpectef ways.
@Squarepeg01: *bad
Fair jews to him
Hates anything Irish nationalist, also hates our language. More chips than a Saturday night take away!
#SJW Win again woohoo! This issue is bigger than a Journalist being wrongly branded sexist and anti-semitic. Soon we will all live in a progressive left utopia where nobody is allowed have an opinion or view other that the stance of the progressive left because as we all know the great tenet of the left that is free speech only applies if you believe the same thing as the left.
I for one welcome our new Progressive Left overlords…… Pffft…Get me off this planet quickly. Idiots.
@Karl Phelan: Triggered much?
@Seamus Mc Meel: Na not really. Thats a progressive left arttribute. I was quite calm writing that piece. Thought it was a well thought out, sarcastic comment. Now run along troll. Your bridge needs a cleaning.
@Karl Phelan:…. and strange that loudest cry about anti-semitism comes from a section of our society who continually support an ideology who’s core book and readings spew nothing but hate and encouragement to kill those of the Jewish Faith. These books should be banned. Try going into a Muslim country and ask them on their feelings on The Jewish People? The best you will get is the Monkey comment. So all you offended Lefty non-democratic liberals are a bunch of hypocrites.
@Karl Phelan: Another one who thinks companies exercising their 100% legal right to terminate someone who tarnishes the company image is some leftist agenda and oppression or some such nonsense. Nah…no one’s stopping him saying whatever he wants, the Times have just chosen to stop giving him a platform for it and look how upset all you totally not sensitive and not easily-offended snowflakes are getting. It’s hilarious how utterly oblivious you are.
@Warthog: Women are both Left and Right, Jews are both Left and Right. This is not a Left-Right issue its a quality issue, an issue about standards of journalism.
@Karl Phelan: ya. A bit like the new Turkey
@Squiddley Diddley: There you go using the “equality” word. We are all equal under the eyes of the law. None of us (generally) are equal in terms of our abilities such as Financial , physical , language etc. as it differs from one human to the next. Myres was not making a general statement that women are not equal to men. He stated that men in certain areas have different abilities than women. The financial world is dominated by males because it requires aggression and risk taking. Men have those attributes in abundance women “generally ” don’t. So women in that regard are not equal to men. Men are not equal to women in certain areas as well and this is recognized by companies. So get off your equality high horse as Myres never implied women were lesser human beings than men!
@Warthog: the word I used was Quality not equality.
@Squiddley Diddley: My apologies
i never could stand Myers
@Shane Hickey: You’re more of a Sun man yourself then?
Kevin Myers is a more educated Katie Hopkins. He has proven himself in the past to be racist, misogynistic and filled with vitriolic bile towards anyone who doesn’t hold a viewpoint similar to his own.
He promoted British colonialism and ignored the rape, murder and torture carried out by the British across the globe.
He was given a platform for years by the indo and the Irish times.
He insulted every race going and constantly proved himself to be misogynistic despite the statement to the contrary by Myers and the idiots on here.
Oddly, it was never called out for what it was by the Irish people. He got away with it, in the same way Conor MacGregor is able to get away with blatant racism now.
His crucial mistake was making anti-Semitic comments. The Jewish people would be right to be angered by these clearly anti-Semitic comments but why wasn’t he pulled up before?
Lovely irony that it was only when his comments hit England that he got sacked. His years of open courting of Britain, while slating Ireland didn’t matter a jot in the end.
Good riddance to this mouthpiece with his hate speech and text that amounted to incitement to hatred and violence (shell cops being encouraged to run over protesters heads with diggers).
For those saying he’s not afraid to say it as it is – well done, you’re as racist and misogynistic as he is.
@Seán C: When you exaggerate you lie.
@Seán C: Pure BS… get out of that victim bubble you live.
@Seán C: Also your first paragraph could be equally applied to the SJWs and their not so liberal anti democratic lefty mates.
Kevin Myers is an excellent journalist. He made a mistake and has apologised to those he offended.
His dismissal from The Times is a poor reflection on The Times management, his punishment is totally misproportionate.
Why interview this guy who has little or no respect for people. RTÉ should be ashamed. Apology not accepted.
@Paul Coughlan: more silence other different options fascism
Were there no outrage, you can be sure there would be no apology.
Conor McGregor said something considerably more racist last week but it was hurriedly brushed over – why hold him to a different standard than Myers?
Kevin Myers once wrote an article entitled, African Is Giving Nothing to Anyone – Apart From Aids
https://www.amren.com/news/2008/07/africa_is_givin/
@David Patrick Cahill: An article that belongs in the gutter with every other piece of “contrarian” garbage he wrote.
In this article he criticises Bill Gates’ efforts to end the killing of children through mosquitos – because it’s a good population control.
For someone so ignorant on human evolution he’s not afraid to take a repugnant social Darwinist view of things.
@Malachi: LOL. Guess you missed the bt where he predicted his piece would “provoke the self-righteous wrath of, well, the self-righteous, letter-writing wrathful, a species which never fails to contaminate almost every debate in Irish life with its sneers and its moral superiority.”
So – are we feeling self-righteous?
@Squarepeg01: I find it hard not to feel morally superior to someone who is in favour of mosquitos ravaging the children of Africa to keep the population “controlled” rather than doing something about it.
Just because he said people would be self-righteous about his article doesn’t mean what he wrote was any less despicable. Feel free to defend what he said, though.
@Malachi: exactly Malachi. @squarepeg1 seems to think it’s OK to say something racist as long as you tell people they’ll be offended first. Great logic there. Incredibly disgusting comments on here. You can now call anyone who’s against racism or misogyny a snowflake, cuckold or sjw. Apparently it’s wrong to be pro equality now.
@Malachi: he is not advocating that mosquitoes ravage Africa. (And they say Americans are the ones who don’t get irony.) He spends the entire article giving us a tour of Africa’s problems from ecological devastation, overpopulation and war to failed states, endemic poverty and abuse of women. He ends om a note of despair – that the problem would soon be coming our way and he was exactly right. That article was written in 2008, long before the current migrant crisis.
@Seán C: he never said he was going to be racist, just that what he was about to say would offend the self-styled great and the good. I can see how his point about malaria and population control may be a bit OTT for those who don’t understand the rhetorical device of hyperbole, but everthing else he wrote in that article was spot on. In the words of Ben Shapiro: facts don’t care sbout your feelings.
This whole thing is ridiculous. Most of the offended have nwver bought a newspaper in the life, and the rest seem to thonk any opinion column is outragepus of it expresses a view that doesn’t match their own.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: I bought the Sunday Times. I read the article. It was not merely obnoxious. It made incorrect and unwarranted generalisations of an insulting and discriminatory nature against women and Jewish women, in particular. The en passant cimments against Jewish women were irrelevant, unnecessary and wrong, gratuitously so. Myers was making snide innuendo. He has partly apologised.
Myers draws false and unsustainable generalisations of a discriminatory nature with intent to hurt
Myres is a dirtbag. Seriously, the guy wrote this: “there was no holocaust (or Holocaust, as my computer software insists) and six million Jews were not murdered by the third Reich. Those two statements of mine are irrefutable truths”.
He’s an oxygen-thief that will say anything to provoke controversy and sell papers and there is nothing to respect about that….and the editor let this happen (in my own honest opinion).
@Patrick Coughlan: and then having got your attention he went on to explain what he meant. Or maybe you didn’t get that far.
@Squarepeg01: yeah I’ve heard that argument. I think it is beyond most people. He should stick to saying what he means instead of what he doesn’t mean and construct simpler logical sentences.
Sticks and stones will break my bones.
But names will never hurt me.
how is a jewish woman offended by being called jewish ??
@David Cullen: Well done on taking his piece completely out of context. It’s not as if he just pointed out the fact that these women were Jewish, it was explicitly to do with their finances, thus dragging out the tired old Jewish miser stereotype.
he deserves getting fired but what about the people that authorised the article to be printed/published??
“A great admirer of the Jewish people”. Even his apology sounds a bit racist. What an A$$
Myers thinks his dismissal could have been softer?? One word, Englishman:
Snowflake.
He’s an opinon writer, not a journalist. We have a tonne of them in Ireland. they regulary appear on tv and radio panels. Big difference to sitting at your desk in West Wicklow to getting a story. He knew what he was doing. He will be snapped up again in a few weeks. This isnt the last we have heard of Colour Sergeant Myers of the 2nd Leicesterhire Dragoons.
Kevin is a superb journalist and writer. An Irishman diary in the IT had many classic moments. He was fearless in attacking sacred cows and b**ls**t of all types. Made a few blunders. Who doesn’t?
Is there any link to the article? Or has it been completely removed from existence?
@Damien Kiely: I can’t find it anywhere either but it will probably turn up sooner or later, maybe on Mark Humphreys’s site
‘I am the master of my soul’ You have to have a soul to master, fk face.
the Idea that an ethnic group would stick to their own and look after each other is dangerously offensive, he is literally a nazi and I hope he dies in the gutter sooner rather than later
@James Russell: now that is possibly the most bigotted reaction I have read so far in a sorry stream of overreactions. BTW – do you even know the meaning of the word ‘literally’.
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