In a fateful tweet, Burchill responded to a sarcastic post from the newest descendant of the Queen’s grandson, Harry, and his wife, Meghan.
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“Proud parents Harry and Meghan announce that their new child Georgina Floydina has signed her first contract with Netflix,” said the post, which clearly evokes support from the Sussex couple for the Black Lives Matter movement and a lucrative deal. with streaming company Netflix.
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A comment for which he allegedly was fired
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“A missed opportunity. They could have named her Georgina Floydin! ” she wrote (in fact, the little girl’s name is Lilibet Diana, after her grandmother or great-grandmother).
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Her attempt at a joke was not met, and Twitter users described it as “despicable” and “disgusting racism.”
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They rejected my ideas anyway, she wrote
Two days later, she announced on her Facebook account that her “great five years” in the Telegraph were over. “I would be lying if I said that I haven’t often complained to my husband lately that they kept rejecting my provocative ideas for pillars and instead asking themes for infantry – which I worked on tremendously anyway,” she wrote.
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English writer and columnist Julie Burchill
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A spokesman for the Telegraph confirmed her release, but did not comment on the reason. One of the editors of Harper’s Bazaar magazine, Omid Scobie, wrote, referring to an unnamed source, that expulsion had indeed caused her inappropriate comment about “Sussex’s second-born child and a reluctance to apologize for it.”
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Burchill’s allegations of racism have been faced several times in her career. Last December, she had to apologize to journalist Ash Sarkar for an allegedly Islamophobic and homophobic statement in which she accused her of worshiping a pedophile. She apologized for her words after the threat of court.
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