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I'm going to say something else about @suzanne_moore. It's that after 300+ of our colleagues signed a letter attacking her in March (it didn't name her but the story about it given to Buzzfeed did) lots of us offered support, on here or by telling the editor what we thought.
Not everyone who said something agreed with Suzanne's column (about Selina Todd's no-platforming in Oxford) tho I did. They all thought she didn't deserve to be publicly attacked by hundreds of colleagues.
Anyway, what i want to say is that I bitterly regret...
Anyway, what i want to say is that I bitterly regret...
.. not finding a more public way to offer support eg in an open letter or a motion at an NUJ meeting.
We were trying to avoid infighting on social media & didn't want to make existing tensions (which aren't unique to the Guardian, many orgs are struggling..
We were trying to avoid infighting on social media & didn't want to make existing tensions (which aren't unique to the Guardian, many orgs are struggling..
with gender politics) worse.
But I now wish we had done it differently, that our support had been more visible.
I don't find it easy to imagine how I'd have felt if I'd been attacked as Suzanne was. But i now think that's what I'd have hoped for in her position. So I'm sorry.
But I now wish we had done it differently, that our support had been more visible.
I don't find it easy to imagine how I'd have felt if I'd been attacked as Suzanne was. But i now think that's what I'd have hoped for in her position. So I'm sorry.
