Worst white man on the cover of the New Statesman's 'Great White Male' issue

There's a tiny part of me that wants to think "maybe that's the point, maybe we are supposed to think about all these unexceptionally odious tosspots who floated on in to their positions on their unearned WhiteMale privilege" but I actually think that would be giving the New Statesman too much credit. I think these were the dudes they were going to publish anyway.

had to be all white men including the 'with' section to pull that off

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Saturday, October 11, 2014 12:29 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Clive James cheated on his wife. On a quick search I couldn't find anyone else.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 October 2014 20:51 (14 minutes ago) Permalink

Clive James is in the final stages of leukemia.

ah, you win some, you lose some

worst white man posting on the worst white man on the cover of the new stateman's 'great white male' issue thread

Just finding things I like or don't mind too much. Not claiming these people have never done bad things.

Grayson Perry. Find him quite interesting and I like that he supports old crafts.

Stephen Fry. Liked his comedy on various things, enjoyed his documentaries on language and homophobia. Kinda like QI. Generally like him despite saying sexist things.

Will Self. Found him very funny on numerous occasions. Liked some of his articles and interviews.

Robert Webb. I like Peepshow (latest series was really downhill though). Said some funny stuff on panel shows.

Clive James. Seems like a good guy. My brother loves him.

David Baddiel. Vaguely remember him saying something funny. Seems okay.

Owen Jones. Disagree with him on a few things but I don't think he's a dick.

ah, you win some, you lose some

― Chimp Arsons, Saturday, October 11, 2014 5:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Are you happy he's ill? Why?

Well we shan't examine Clive James then because cancer instantly absolves people of any wrong they may have committed, and qualifies them for instant sainthood.

Clive James is in the final stages of leukemia.

I just dodged a cousin's funeral who prematurely died of cancer, bad shit happens to shit people as well.

toxic

aiieee, i do recall reports of him being unwell now, that's fucking rough

Clive James is wonderful.

anyhow, last time i read any james, he was criticizing the bbc for not giving balanced coverage of climate change, not enough representation of the sceptical pov, that sort of thing iirc

Heaven forbid, good thing he's dying I guess

I've only said critical thing about CJ on this board and am not a fan. What I objected to here was people actively scouting out reasons to hate him and others by searching their name + "scandal." It just seems dumb.

I realize the irony of the NS only featuring white male voices in this issue though. Seems like a different issue than looking for reasons to hate the writers individually though.

the only person i've seen googling reasons to hate on this thread has actually been quite positive about half the list

tony parsons "cool guy"

About 11,700 results (0.30 seconds)

A Special Issue on the Great WhiteStraw Man

Heaven forbid, good thing he's dying I guess

don't be a boob treeship

The reason I was using search engines is to find out why on earth these people are so hated that they'd be lumped in with Parsons. I've seen some ridiculously over the top hate on this forum (sometimes even close to the style of Parsons) for people like Carey Mulligan and James Corden (maybe I'd have google to find out why). I'm just sceptical that all these people are worth that hate and wanted to say some nice things to balance it out.

wow way to pick out two of the all time worst to compare to tbh

SEE YOU TRY TO PLAY THE BALANCE CARD BUT THEY SUCK YOU BACK IN

This is not a thread for saying nice things! (This is a thread for making spurious assumptions about the gender and race of the participants right now, but I'm finding that too funny to disabuse right now.)

i am wondering who'd have to be amongst this lot to comprehensively, no-questions prevail. corden seems a shout, and yet

bush obv but not likely to be asked to weigh in on cutural issues in the uk now is he

alexei sayles my vote but i recognise that's not likely to fly on ilx

Rupert Murdoch?

rod liddle ftw

Hitler

Stephen Fry

What I know about them right now: Corden annoys people. Carey Mulligan's acting ability is in question and she dates a guy from a band that lots of people don't like.
Are they Ukip supporters too?

oh man fuck rod liddle

who would be on a US cover analogue? philip roth prob? franzen?

'corden annoys people, hitler had some dubious politics' you do realise this is the level of minimising yr guilty of there RAG

Wait I've got it: Morrissey

Hey now he's not well

heh

whichever little piece of fucking shit comes out of the Amis scrotom next = literary genius, get the fucking Gillster to interview him :O=

I still love Morrissey despite his often idiotic politics (including Ukip unfortunately), some other daft opinions, excessive negativity and his steep musical decline from the mid90s onward.

robert do you ever feel you have too much love for the rest of the world

;)

I need reasons to not commit suicide. Excessive negativity feels cheap, annoying and self destructive.

Amis seems like the type of writer I'd like to completely dismiss but I often hear good things. I was surprised that Caitlin R Kiernan was quite a fan.

But I confess I laughed my ass off at the Corden Hitler thing

Maaaaan, the sheer joy of hatred is the only thing that keeps me alive sometimes! (I mean that quite literally.)

:( sorry for assoff

without an ass u might have to shit thru ur scrotum like marty amis

marty aims v carefully

My hate list

Parsons
G G@lloway
Michae1 M00re
Putin
S Palin, Bush, McCain
Michael Howard

There are probably more but I prefer to keep the list short

can see you've had run-ins with Michael Moore before dude, good idea to googleproof him

Never had run ins with anybody or their fans. Just being cautious.

Simon Cowell too.

I was on a very anxious death-watch when I heard the tragic news of Marr nearly expiring on a rowing machine, I literally cried myself to sleep that night because I love him so much.