The poor boy used to date the egregious India Knight, a diet-peddling dimwit who thinks Muslims are the New Jews (c) and the Hasidim won't let a gentile's shadow fall on them. Some of it must have worn off. She crossed Julie Burchill once. It was a pleasure to behold (see the link on Stephen Pollard's old site):
http://www.stephenpollard.net/00...net/
002983.html
Globally warmed generation? I'm still stuck in the Pepsi generation!
NGB - it was delicious indeed, thanks!
Stinky - I suspect that this term comes from an overheating brain, and it's not overheated by global warming, I am afraid 
If the sunspots keep staying away, we could become known as the cold-toed New Ice Age generation. March on...
Agree... Cut, Print, Moron. I give Andrew O'Hagan the Moron Medal of Merit.
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The real truth about Gibson is in between the two. His comments certainly deserved to get him smacked, and smacked very hard.
He still has a lot of talent, and as such, the solution to his error is to teach him better, not to shun him utterly -- that will only add to his armor of self-justification.
Further, to shun him utterly will not suppress the perniciously wrong ideas he espoused -- it will only make the case to EVERYONE -- "Never, Ever, publicly admit that you believe in these ideas" -- so instead of getting their wrongness corrected by exposture to light, they are driven into the dark where they can fester like poisonous mushrooms.
Such comments should certainly be unacceptable -- but they should never be so unacceptable that one dare not express them, because that is suppression, which is a particularly ineffective technique for destroying bad memes.
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OBH, I can't disagree with anything you said, however I have to make a remark - this post of mine was not about Gibson and his stupid beliefs.
Oh, and about teaching Gibson - I am not sure it's doable. His dad taught him too much, unfortunately.
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