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Socialist Worker Paper/Vile Comments

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POGS Sat 12-Jul-14 16:19:22

What on earth makes a paper use the death of a 17 year old schoolboy to make jokes about class in it's warped mind.??

Horatio Chapple was the 17 year old schoolboy who was savagely killed by a polar bear. His inquest has started and the Socialist Worker ran an article headed ' ETON BY BEAR' and concluded by saying 'ANOTHER REASON TO SAVE THE POLAR BEARS'

The left wing paper obviously finds it amusing and considers class warfare to be a reason to write such a vile, disgusting crass article but I certainly don't. What the hell does it say about the far left if they think it is fair game to stoop so low because the boy was deemed in their pathetic minds to be 'posh'. Would they have wrote the same article had he been a lad from a state school, no. It's totally shameful.

Some papers have carried the story, I don't think one well known, widely read paper has mentioned it, I could be wrong. Had the article appeared in the likes of the Daily Mail there would have been an outcry and Labour would be calling for yet another inquiry and the BBC would calling for the editors head to roll.

There are quite rightly many occasions when papers have been taken to task but I find this article and it's whole message behind what was written sick and quite frankly one of the worst. I wonder what Leveson would have made of this article. Bugger all probably.

His family must despair. They also had to endure abuse after his death by 'trolls' on Facebook, again cowardly little oiks with not an ounce of empathy.

annodomini Sat 12-Jul-14 17:17:25

I don't think you'll find any disagreement here, Pogs. It's disgusting, distasteful and callous.

sherish Sat 12-Jul-14 17:45:07

It's disgusting. His poor parents have lost a child. why is it important that he went to Eton? What a terrible newspaper and the same goes for the people who buy it.

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 12-Jul-14 17:45:30

Nasty, horrible, stupid, mean minded people. angry

Grannyknot Sat 12-Jul-14 17:46:10

No words. sad

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 12-Jul-14 17:55:10

poll in the mirror asking "did you find the polar bear joke insensitive". 79% said yes, 21 % said NO!

Som e very nasty people out there, amongst the good ones.

whenim64 Sat 12-Jul-14 18:00:53

Here's the article via Twitter:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RhodaBuchanan/status/487183401586552832/photo/1

Whoever wrote this doesn't speak for me as a socialist. A terrible tragedy for this boy's family, school and friends. There have been lots of reports about it on TV. Why on earth it should be used to make a point about class, public schools or the plight of polar bears, I don't comprehend.

merlotgran Sat 12-Jul-14 18:01:19

I heard about this on the Jeremy Vine show yesterday. The poor boys who survived were completely traumatized and the family of the teenager who was killed must be devastated.

The death of any teenager in any circumstances is a terrible tragedy. sad

sunseeker Sat 12-Jul-14 18:10:03

I don't think this represents the opinion of the majority of socialists.

Nonu Sat 12-Jul-14 18:16:34

Sincerely hope not !!
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Iam64 Sat 12-Jul-14 18:50:22

Of course it doesn't, it's low, mean, cheap and nasty. But, the SWP has always been a bed rock of bullying imo

vegasmags Sat 12-Jul-14 19:36:09

Typical of the SWP, I'm afraid. They really don't do themselves any favours. Amazing how many members of the SWP are themselves upper middle class.

vegasmags Sat 12-Jul-14 19:36:51

Sorry should have written from upper middle class families.

POGS Sat 12-Jul-14 19:36:58

Whenim

Thank you for putting up a link, I really must learn. blush

It is a pathetic article isn't it.

thatbags Sat 12-Jul-14 20:04:13

Appalling! Just appalling, shocking and nasty. sad angry

rosesarered Sat 12-Jul-14 20:09:16

Counter productive as well, as anyone with socialist leanings may well think twice about ever buying this paper again.It's pathetic and vile.

MiceElf Sat 12-Jul-14 20:39:30

That crew. They used to be the International Socialsts. Rigid, bullying, doctrinaire and a total pain to any decent left of centre party which they tried to influence. The numbers are very small, but they are all pretty poisonous.

rosequartz Sat 12-Jul-14 20:44:27

There is not a lot I can add, except to say they are people full of hate. They are not socialists, they are bigots.

Eloethan Sat 12-Jul-14 21:59:21

I think the remarks are shocking. A young man died a horrible, unnecessary death and if the writer of the article thinks there's anything remotely funny about that, then I think he would be better described as a psychopath than a socialist.

Iam64 Sun 13-Jul-14 07:58:39

Describing IS/SWP as socialists is a bit like describing the BNP as tories. Humourless bullies was my experience of IS/SWP in the 70's and early 80's when they did try to get ordinary left leaners like myself to play out with them. Well, we females were expected to make the tea of course, so it became very much a male preserve, very quickly
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AlieOxon Sun 13-Jul-14 08:09:16

My own view too, Iam !

MiceElf Sun 13-Jul-14 08:19:44

I spent a lot of energy fighting the entryism from them throughout the 80s. They have formed alliances with various dodgy groups - the Respect Party with the ghastly George Galloway, Tommy Sheridan's outfit and others. They also form organisations which are a front to disguise themselves. All have split over the years. The Wiki entry gives an overview.

whenim64 Sun 13-Jul-14 09:26:09

I've had a few verbal kickings from SWP bods whose hypocrisy defies belief. In the 80s, their activity in deprived neighbourhoods where I worked was unwanted and complained about, because they have a distinct lack of compassion as a political/activist body claiming to be on the side of the downtrodden. I walked into a client's house one day, to find a Socialist Worker member prepping a disabled man to go on a demonstration that weekend. He wasn't well enough to get to the local shop, let alone the city centre, but SWP wanted to get more disabled recruits out there in sight of cameras. This person waited for me to leave and started to lay into me for selling out and working for my oppressors! Given that he also worked in the public sector, he had a bloody cheek!

MiceElf Sun 13-Jul-14 09:37:55

Oh, Whenim, I've been there too. Not in a situation as nasty as that, but after challenging them as entyists and so on in GC meetings. I remember being cornered by three heavies in the street after one meeting and in the end I had to call the police to get them to move. That, of course, was colluding with the oppressor.

Nanalogue Sun 13-Jul-14 09:49:15

I cannot bring myself to read the article, but from what you are (all) saying, does it not constitute a hate crime?

Hate crime or incident - definition. Hate incident - the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) defines a hate incident as: 'any incident, which may or may not constitute a criminal offence, which is perceived by the victim or any other person, as being motivated by prejudice or hate.'