Feminist columnist at Teh Gruaniad bullied into resigning.

[TSwizzle]

Suzanne Moore wrote a column for Teh Gruaniad back in March 2020 that didn’t align with Teh Gruaniad wokeness. After months of bullying and a letter of complaint to the editor signed by 300+ Gruaniad employees Suzanne resigned. She has written a piece for The Daily Mail which tells the whole sordid story;

How I was censored by The Guardian: SUZANNE MOORE’S 'unwoke' views on trans rights were often edited out of her column before she was bullied out of her job.

DailyMail

 

[Derec]

I am disappointed. I was hoping the ghastly Julie Bindel got the boot. Or Jessica Vilenti.

 

[Bronzeage]

What the hell is Teh Gruaniad?

 

[Derec]

Back on the day, The Guardian had more typos and misspellings than Sidney Powell's "Kraken" Lawsuit in the Northern Distrcoict[sic] of Georgia.

They have yet to live it down.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

So would far-right "news" sources, such as Breitbart, allow communists to promote their views on their site? Lol, no, they wouldn't.

 

[Metaphor]

I am disappointed. I was hoping the ghastly Julie Bindel got the boot. Or Jessica Vilenti.

Bindel and Valenti both are patriarchy true believers who generally write stupid nonsense, but Bindel believes that biological sex exists, so for that sin she may yet be driven out.

 

[TSwizzle]

I am disappointed. I was hoping the ghastly Julie Bindel got the boot. Or Jessica Vilenti.

I think Jesica has been gone for a while. Teh Gruaniad is getting more and more extreme. The sports section is still pretty good.

 

[repoman]

40 years from now (assuming resource depletion and climate change have not made things post apocalyptic) what will people who are now 20 year olds attacking Moore be ideological fossils about?

Moore is seen as a fossil, right?

 

[Trausti]

What have you said in 2020 that will get you cancelled in 2025?

 

[Angra Mainyu]

What have you said in 2020 that will get you cancelled in 2025?

I'll tell you in about 5 years.

 

[Bronzeage]

Is "getting bullied out of your job" the same thing as getting fired? She wouldn't be the first person who lost their job because the owner of the business was not pleased with their performance.

 

[Metaphor]

Is "getting bullied out of your job" the same thing as getting fired?

No. The OP clearly says she resigned.

 

[Jarhyn]

So, the guardian, as "the press" has editorial freedom over their own publications, messages that they will and will not allow under their editorial discretion even coming from a columnist. This is freedom of the press. If this transexclusionary asshole got let go because they were insistant on being a pain in the ass about editorial decisions, she doesn't have a right to access their mouthpiece. Maybe she gets a mouthpiece at Daily Mail for her failure to be a decent human being. See, "free market of ideas" in motion.

 

[Politesse]

Is "getting bullied out of your job" the same thing as getting fired?

No. The OP clearly says she resigned.

So this is the usual thing of a conservative getting upset because they received negative feedback for their bigoted opinions, quitting in a huff, and then claiming to be persecuted? She even basically admits that her "hurt was miniscule", so where's the story here?

It sounds like they hired her to write a lifestyle column and didn't want to have a hot political discussion in said lifestyle section, which she ignored and continued trying to write what she wanted rather than what she was asked to write. If you want to have total freedom as a writer, go freelance; big newspapers don't tolerate mavericks well. Indeed, she admits in here piece that she has had always had a "slightly odd" relationship with the paper, presumbaly not just over this one issue.

But the letter writing campaign (which didn't even name her particularly) was the thing she quit over. And that's, well... Sorry. If you publish something controversial in the Guardian, then yeah, people will probably write letters about it. What does she think professional journalism is, a freshman creative writing class? Of course there was negative feedback. She knew she was writing something edgy, she meant to write something edgy, she did so in open defiance of what her employers said to write, and wasn't actually punished for it in the least, they even still published her column. They aren't obliged to publish anything she writes, you know. Her column was published, she got paid. Don't cry into your cheerios when there's blowback for writing something you knew was edgy, especially when you're still benefiting from your position of privilege all the while.

"Shouldn't you stand by your writers?" she whines to the Guardian... as she viciously attacks her fellow writers at the Guardian, ridiculing their very existence and accusing them of being sex fiends and prostitutes, then complains that they were allowed to write something in response. Yeah, I think we can see what sort of person we're dealing with here.

 

[TomC]

Is "getting bullied out of your job" the same thing as getting fired? She wouldn't be the first person who lost their job because the owner of the business was not pleased with their performance.

Is "getting bullied out of your job" the same thing as getting fired?

No. The OP clearly says she resigned.

As a gay man I can tell you.
Sometimes the way people fire employees that they'd prefer not to employ is by making the workplace so untenable that the employee just leaves. That way they can dodge responsibility for the firing while getting what they want.
Tom

 

[Metaphor]

Is "getting bullied out of your job" the same thing as getting fired?

No. The OP clearly says she resigned.

So this is the usual thing of a conservative getting upset because they received negative feedback for their bigoted opinions, quitting in a huff, and then claiming to be persecuted? She even basically admits that her "hurt was miniscule", so where's the story here?

It sounds like they hired her to write a lifestyle column and didn't want to have a hot political discussion in said lifestyle section, which she ignored and continued trying to write what she wanted rather than what she was asked to write. If you want to have total freedom as a writer, go freelance; big newspapers don't tolerate mavericks well. Indeed, she admits in here piece that she has had always had a "slightly odd" relationship with the paper, presumbaly not just over this one issue.

But the letter writing campaign (which didn't even name her particularly) was the thing she quit over. And that's, well... Sorry. If you publish something controversial in the Guardian, then yeah, people will probably write letters about it. What does she think professional journalism is, a freshman creative writing class? Of course there was negative feedback. She knew she was writing something edgy, she meant to write something edgy, she did so in open defiance of what her employers said to write, and wasn't actually punished for it in the least, they even still published her column. They aren't obliged to publish anything she writes, you know. Her column was published, she got paid. Don't cry into your cheerios when there's blowback for writing something you knew was edgy, especially when you're still benefiting from your position of privilege all the while.

"Shouldn't you stand by your writers?" she whines to the Guardian... as she viciously attacks her fellow writers at the Guardian, ridiculing their very existence and accusing them of being sex fiends and prostitutes, then complains that they were allowed to write something in response. Yeah, I think we can see what sort of person we're dealing with here.

Politesse, once again you don't seem to have read the OP.

Her "lifestyle" column days were from a generation ago. The letter writing campaign wasn't from the general public, but other Guardian journalists (some might call it workplace bullying).

She did not do something in open defiance of her employer. Her employer did not direct her what to write.

But I take your point that writing about sex-based rights is now 'edgy' and unacceptable. The transgender coup of public discourse is nearly complete.