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Socialist Worker Paper/Vile Comments

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vegasmags Sat 12-Jul-14 19:36:09

Typical of the SWP, I'm afraid. They really don't do themselves any favours. Amazing how many members of the SWP are themselves upper middle class.

Iam64 Sat 12-Jul-14 18:50:22

Of course it doesn't, it's low, mean, cheap and nasty. But, the SWP has always been a bed rock of bullying imo

Nonu Sat 12-Jul-14 18:16:34

Sincerely hope not !!
sad

sunseeker Sat 12-Jul-14 18:10:03

I don't think this represents the opinion of the majority of socialists.

merlotgran Sat 12-Jul-14 18:01:19

I heard about this on the Jeremy Vine show yesterday. The poor boys who survived were completely traumatized and the family of the teenager who was killed must be devastated.

The death of any teenager in any circumstances is a terrible tragedy. sad

whenim64 Sat 12-Jul-14 18:00:53

Here's the article via Twitter:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RhodaBuchanan/status/487183401586552832/photo/1

Whoever wrote this doesn't speak for me as a socialist. A terrible tragedy for this boy's family, school and friends. There have been lots of reports about it on TV. Why on earth it should be used to make a point about class, public schools or the plight of polar bears, I don't comprehend.

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 12-Jul-14 17:55:10

poll in the mirror asking "did you find the polar bear joke insensitive". 79% said yes, 21 % said NO!

Som e very nasty people out there, amongst the good ones.

Grannyknot Sat 12-Jul-14 17:46:10

No words. sad

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 12-Jul-14 17:45:30

Nasty, horrible, stupid, mean minded people. angry

sherish Sat 12-Jul-14 17:45:07

It's disgusting. His poor parents have lost a child. why is it important that he went to Eton? What a terrible newspaper and the same goes for the people who buy it.

annodomini Sat 12-Jul-14 17:17:25

I don't think you'll find any disagreement here, Pogs. It's disgusting, distasteful and callous.

POGS Sat 12-Jul-14 16:19:22

What on earth makes a paper use the death of a 17 year old schoolboy to make jokes about class in it's warped mind.??

Horatio Chapple was the 17 year old schoolboy who was savagely killed by a polar bear. His inquest has started and the Socialist Worker ran an article headed ' ETON BY BEAR' and concluded by saying 'ANOTHER REASON TO SAVE THE POLAR BEARS'

The left wing paper obviously finds it amusing and considers class warfare to be a reason to write such a vile, disgusting crass article but I certainly don't. What the hell does it say about the far left if they think it is fair game to stoop so low because the boy was deemed in their pathetic minds to be 'posh'. Would they have wrote the same article had he been a lad from a state school, no. It's totally shameful.

Some papers have carried the story, I don't think one well known, widely read paper has mentioned it, I could be wrong. Had the article appeared in the likes of the Daily Mail there would have been an outcry and Labour would be calling for yet another inquiry and the BBC would calling for the editors head to roll.

There are quite rightly many occasions when papers have been taken to task but I find this article and it's whole message behind what was written sick and quite frankly one of the worst. I wonder what Leveson would have made of this article. Bugger all probably.

His family must despair. They also had to endure abuse after his death by 'trolls' on Facebook, again cowardly little oiks with not an ounce of empathy.