Post by abbey1227 on Jun 9, 2021 1:42:19 GMT
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Columnist Fired For Tweeting Harry And Meghan Should've Name Baby 'Georgina Floydina'
Carly Ledbetter·Senior Reporter, HuffPost Tue, June 8, 2021, 3:24 PM
Julie Burchill, a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, has been fired for a racist tweet she wrote just after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced the birth of their second child.
After the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed that they’d named their daughter Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor on Sunday, Burchill tweeted out, “What a missed opportunity! They could’ve called it Georgina Floydina!”
Last year, Meghan spoke about George Floyd and other victims of police brutality in a graduation address shortly after the 46-year-old Black man’s death at the hands of a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, who was later found guilty of murder.
On Tuesday, two days after the initial tweet, Burchill wrote on her Facebook page that she’d “been sacked by the Telegraph.” Journalist Nadine White was the first to report Burchill’s firing.
“It’s been a lovely five years, and I’ll always be grateful to them for ending my Wilderness Years,” Burchill, who goes by Julie Raven on Facebook, said in a post that notably did not contain any apology.
“However, I’d be lying if I said that I hadn’t often moaned to my husband recently about them always rejecting my *edgy* column ideas and giving me more pedestrian ones - which I’ve done splendidly anyway,” she said. “I hope you can see my archive here. Onwards and upwards!”
Omid Scobie, a royal biographer and royal editor at large for Harper’s Bazaar, also confirmed Burchill’s firing with a Telegraph spokesperson on Tuesday. He added that “a source confirms that she was fired following her racist tweets about the Sussexes’ second child (and refusal to apologise for them).”
The Telegraph and The Spectator did not reply to HuffPost’s request for comment on Monday and Tuesday.
In the comments section of Burchill’s Facebook post, people praised her as a “warrior” and an “inspiration” and questioned why she was fired.
Burchill has been involved in a number of racist and offensive incidents over the years, including encouraging the racist abuse of Ash Sarkar, a journalist and activist, in December 2020.
Burchill accused Sarkar of worshipping a pedophile in a series of ongoing attacks that fed Islamphobic, racist and sexist harassment about Sarkar’s appearance and sex life.
Columnist Fired For Tweeting Harry And Meghan Should've Name Baby 'Georgina Floydina'
Carly Ledbetter·Senior Reporter, HuffPost Tue, June 8, 2021, 3:24 PM
Julie Burchill, a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, has been fired for a racist tweet she wrote just after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced the birth of their second child.
After the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed that they’d named their daughter Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor on Sunday, Burchill tweeted out, “What a missed opportunity! They could’ve called it Georgina Floydina!”
Last year, Meghan spoke about George Floyd and other victims of police brutality in a graduation address shortly after the 46-year-old Black man’s death at the hands of a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, who was later found guilty of murder.
HuffPost captured screenshots of Burchill’s racist tweets and retweets before her Twitter account was deactivated:
Meme:
PROUD PARENTS HARRY AND MEGHAN ANNOUNCE THEIR NEW BABY GEORGINA FLOYDINA HAS SIGNED UP TO ITS FIRST NETFLIX DEAL
Burchill's post; What a missed opportunity. They could have called it Georgina Floydina!
On Tuesday, two days after the initial tweet, Burchill wrote on her Facebook page that she’d “been sacked by the Telegraph.” Journalist Nadine White was the first to report Burchill’s firing.
“It’s been a lovely five years, and I’ll always be grateful to them for ending my Wilderness Years,” Burchill, who goes by Julie Raven on Facebook, said in a post that notably did not contain any apology.
“However, I’d be lying if I said that I hadn’t often moaned to my husband recently about them always rejecting my *edgy* column ideas and giving me more pedestrian ones - which I’ve done splendidly anyway,” she said. “I hope you can see my archive here. Onwards and upwards!”
Omid Scobie, a royal biographer and royal editor at large for Harper’s Bazaar, also confirmed Burchill’s firing with a Telegraph spokesperson on Tuesday. He added that “a source confirms that she was fired following her racist tweets about the Sussexes’ second child (and refusal to apologise for them).”
The Telegraph and The Spectator did not reply to HuffPost’s request for comment on Monday and Tuesday.
In the comments section of Burchill’s Facebook post, people praised her as a “warrior” and an “inspiration” and questioned why she was fired.
Burchill has been involved in a number of racist and offensive incidents over the years, including encouraging the racist abuse of Ash Sarkar, a journalist and activist, in December 2020.
Burchill accused Sarkar of worshipping a pedophile in a series of ongoing attacks that fed Islamphobic, racist and sexist harassment about Sarkar’s appearance and sex life.
After Sarkar took legal action, Burchill apologized for her defamatory comments and was forced to pay damages, according to BBC. Her book on cancel culture, called “Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics,” was also canceled as a result, though the columnist eventually found another publisher that picked up the book in March 2021.
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