I just had a really jarring experience that I’m cautious to tweet about because I fear it’ll hurt my career but I’m going to share it anyway
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The direct quote: “speak to a few people older than you and you will see that politicians have been fabricating things for decades, it’s just it’s now moving to newly available platforms”
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I can’t describe how weird it is to be live on a programme I was asked to come on because of my expertise and be patronised like this. If I was a white man, this wouldn’t have happened
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Not a lot of people write about what I write about and everyone in this field works really hard to show how serious this stuff can be. It’s defeating to have mainstream broadcasters feign interest by inviting you on and then show absolutely no respect for you or your work
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Anyways, if you want to listen, here you go. I was on from 17:35 and the exchange in question happened just before 17:40https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_five_live …
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Also lol the guy in this thumbnail wasn’t the guy! Sorry to this man
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Sorry but how did we get from him saying you are too young to understand to "if I was a white man" which is a sexist / racism thing? Genuinely as it's not clear from the thread? It's patronising regardless...
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