It’s terrible that
by mere accident of birth, some people are afforded benefits and opportunities
that are denied to others. That’s why I think Connie St Louis, the black
female journalism professor whose
malicious slander led to the virtual destruction of a Nobel Laureate’s career,
needs to urgently check her privilege. Because unlike most people in the
country, it seems she can get away with murder, thanks to her gender and, yes,
her skin colour.
St Louis is
responsible for the sacking of Sir Tim Hunt, a Nobel prize-winning biochemist
who became the target of an online lynch mob after his comments about women in
science were taken out of context……St Louis, eager to combat damaging
stereotypes, immediately went off crying to the media........her resume
describes her as an “award winning freelance broadcaster, writer, and
scientist” who “presents and produces a range of programmes for BBC Radio 4 and
BBC World Service” and “writes for numerous outlets, including the Independent,
the Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Sunday Times…[yet she ] she had only written one article for the Guardian,
in 2013…..[the] Joseph Rowntree fellowship which she received to write and
publish a book….ten years later has yet to produce a completed work……. St Louis
has lied about her CV, and she has lied about Tim Hunt.
Anyone else would be fired on the spot.
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