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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nerak" data-source="post: 1987324670" data-attributes="member: 29417">The 4 most inflammatory topics in UK politics have been Islam, Zionism, Gender & Brexit... Moz has managed to be on the wrong side of all of them just by not sticking to the language rules & rarely (to never) engaging with anyone in the media.So it's interesting to contrast his case with JK Rowling - sociable billionaire & brave defender of women's & children's rights, transphobic witch or tragic Twitter addict, depending on your political stance. The UK centre/left has written several hot-takes in her support. This one by Nick Cohen relates the most to some of the ways Moz has been monstered (sometimes by the same hacks objecting to JK's monstering).[URL unfurl="true"]https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/october-2020/braving-the-goblet-of-fire/[/URL]Expressing complicated & unpopular views. The cowardice & herd mentality of showbiz. Unjustly separating the art from the artist. Being labelled a bigot - in JK's case they recognize that her words were twisted.[ATTACH=full]59222[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]59223[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]59224[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]59225[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]59226[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]59227[/ATTACH]JK made a lot of her hack friends during the campaign for Scottish Independence. She was a Unionist & they were vastly outnumbered on Twitter by ardent Nationalists who were dubbed Cybernats.She was also against Corbynism (Jeremy Corbyn, UK Labour Party leader, not really like Bernie Sanders, but he'd be the closest American equivalent) - probably for more than the anti-Zionism that tipped over into paranoid neo-Nazi adjacent antisemitism, but it was the prejudice row that blazed across Twitter.A lot of Moz's haters were pro-Corbyn & despite finding themselves relentlessly tweeting support for a leader who is likely to be remembered as a borderline if not actual racist - it's still Moz who gets attacked for his 'outbursts' (aka a couple of sentences).Eg. Bragg - not cancelled, still telling everyone what it's acceptable to say & do, having refreshed Google hoping to see Moz denounced by the world... despite...[ATTACH=full]59228[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]59231[/ATTACH]But Moz forever shackled to his repellant opinions - which exist almost entirely in people's mad fantasies. [ATTACH=full]59230[/ATTACH]The Dog reviews pretty much consisted of how horrible & untouchable he was. That he's a British nativist, racist, a misogynist piece of sh<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🍷" title="Wine glass    :wine_glass:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f377.png" data-shortname=":wine_glass:" />t... probably the worst showbiz moral panic since Oscar Wilde.</blockquote>

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