I found it quite funny. Life is much easier and more fun when you learn to not be offended by anything
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Rod Liddle is well documented as being a ****, but for the Sunday Times to print this is disgraceful. Swap "Wales/Welsh" for any other group and he'd be ostracised, imagine the reaction if he'd written something about Jews...
Although I suppose its just a "joke"...
I found it quite funny. Life is much easier and more fun when you learn to not be offended by anything
You have to read his article with a tounge in the cheek view, he writes some good footy articles .
Started work on the Echo and Western Mail ,wrote speeches for the Labour party, used to be a card carrying member of the Labour party until he got thrown out in 2016 after a blog about , 'antisemitism as visceral for many Muslims' .(Seems he spotted something early than most .)
I read his book, (Selfish Whining Monkeys: How We Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy) had me chuckling , and then annoyed , at times , strange fellow.
He also has a bite at the P.O.W . as well , in case anyone missed it.
This article was clearly tongue-in-cheek, and playing the victim doesn't help anything, I'm afraid. There's nothing wrong with being able to laugh at ourselves and at others.
My English mates call me a sheepshagger. Should we be "offended" by that? One of my English PC-loving mates even asked me why I'm not offended: he thinks I ought to be. There's an entire grievance industry out there with an army of people wanting to be offended by anything and everything trivial, don't join their ranks.
There are far more important things in life to worry about, than a few paragraphs having a lighthearted poke at us sheepshag- uhh I mean Welsh.
I'm not offended by the article itself, its just the double standards that annoy me. I knew the reaction I'd get was "its a joke", but other people don't have to put up with it
If I wrote an article in the Sunday Times calling all Bristolians the result of incest and that they live in a backwards, third world society I'd be ostracised and rightly so. In fact I doubt the editor would allow it to be printed