Media Bias Part 15

This is stuff on the BBC! – Academic Dr Charlotte Riley pronounced Karens ‘completely unwilling to accept that their whiteness is a privilege’, said ‘they want to be treated in a special way because they are women’ and instructed them to ‘think critically about your identity and your privilege’. Karens, she explained, ought to ‘try… Continue reading Media Bias Part 15

Media Bias Part 14

In the past few years we’ve witnessed the sort of things the BBC was made for: a Western political crisis in the middle of a global health and economic crisis. Throw in a landmark US presidential election and the UK’s final transition out of the European Union and 2020 is a news editor’s dream. The… Continue reading Media Bias Part 14

Media Bias Part 13

Karen’s gravest sin, though, is that she is white, and if you had already detected a post-Christian millenarianism in the movement currently trying to purge humanity’s vices, it is no surprise that its concept of original sin takes female form. There’s nothing wrong with the BBC having a debate about Karens. The problem is that… Continue reading Media Bias Part 13