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The BBC still come across as transphobic despite finding the article misleading.
The ECU said the story did not perpetuate âharmful and negative stereotypesâ about trans women because there is âno consensus on what constitutes a transphobic viewâ. This loophole meant the story âsufficientlyâ met the corporationâs impartiality guidelines.
âIt also follows that the elements of inaccuracy identified earlier in this finding would not have contributed towards the creation of a harmful or negative stereotype, even though they may have conduced to an exaggerated impression of the incidence of the concerns addressed in the article,â the report added.
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Thatâs⌠certainly a take.
"It wasnât transphobic, because itâs normal to think theyâre all nasty perverts, so itâs difficult to tell when a view flips from being cool and normal to âtransphobicâ whatever that means.
âIt follows that there wasnât the creation of a harmful or negative stereotype because everyone already knows theyâre horrible people, so it was all kinda true even if the things we reported as facts never happened.â
Pusillanimous fuckers.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has told ITV News that Prince Andrew is âseeking to make amendsâ having settled his sexual abuse lawsuit and we must âlearn to be a more open and forgiving societyâ.
The Most Revd Justin Welby was questioned in an interview with News At Ten presenter Tom Bradby about whether the upcoming Jubilee celebrations offer the public the opportunity to unite and forgive the Duke of York, who has always denied any wrong doing.
The Archbishop said he recognised âthereâs very deep feelings indeedâ, with issues of abuse âintensely personal and privateâ and it wasnât right to âtell people how theyâre to respond about thisâ.
âWe have become a very unforgiving society,â he said.
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Lets make Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism a British reality this weekend!
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She ainât a human being
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The Royal Family need to keep up their reputation. It has been 32 years since they gave Jimmy Savile a knighthood, and 34 since Cyril Smith got his. They must be behind on their child abuser honours quota.
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The four day (four days!) flag-shagathon is already getting on my tits but it did give us thisâŚ
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âNo sir, Iâm sure theyre saying Boooo-RIS BoooooRIS!â
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As a happily escaped citizen of the 
(having made my get-away during the days when âfreedom of movementâ was permitted) as well as a citizen of 
Iâm pleased to say I am only barely aware of this event.
(Iâm actually hoping to be singing âBlaydon Racesâ someday soon as the national anthem of the revived Kingdom of Northumbria, if it comes to its senses, reclaims its sovereignty, and rejoins the EU.)
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All this talk of her duty and sacrifice and Iâm just left thinking sheâs an hereditary billionaire on a big chair with an obscenely expensive hat bought with the proceeds of rampant exploitation of other countries by possibly the most violent and expansive White Supremacist Empire in the history of the world but yeah, sure, maybe she doesnât have a cushion.
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bonus points if the flag has a thumb on it
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Wouldnât it be something a bit more Makina?
A lot of people assume that it has something to do with Catalonia. Makina originally came from round there too, maybe Newcastle should become the Barcelona of the North?
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Charlie Stross does keep complaining that real life keeps outstripping his plots for the next book.
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It certainly feels like England has gone full Scarfolk.
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