Journalist tweets racist remarks resulting in her employer showing her the door
Journalist Julie Burchill, who has bought you classic headlines like, “The sexist left has never liked a right-wing woman,” has been axed from The Telegraph following an overtly racist tweet. Having tweeted a name suggestion about Meghan and Harry’s newest arrival, Julie Burchill took to Facebook to make the announcement.
I try not to take joy in people losing their jobs, but I feel no such qualms today. Goodbye #JulieBurchill. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. pic.twitter.com/ocQuUNGJla
— R.S. Locke / Royal Suitor (@royal_suitor) June 8, 2021
“I’ve been sacked by the Telegraph – it’s been a lovely five years, and I’ll always be grateful to them for ending my wilderness years,” she wrote on Facebook.
“However, I’d be lying if I said that I hadn’t often moaned to my husband recently about them always rejecting my edgy column ideas and giving me more pedestrian ones – which I’ve done splendidly anyway.”
“Onwards and upwards!” she concluded.
The tweet in question says: “What a missed opportunity! They could have called it Georgina Floydina!”
A lawyer who replied to her tweet with another morally dubious statement was also sacked from her firm on Monday.
https://twitter.com/O8Yth/status/1401650333110177792
The post is obviously a nod to the abhorrent murder of George Floyd last year at the hands of a law enforcement officer. It was rightly criticised on social media, with many calling for her sacking. Perhaps she can go and write her “edgy” columns somewhere else?
