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Old 01-11-2018, 11:18 AM #1
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Default Waitrose Food magazine editor William Sitwell : resigns over 'killing vegans' row

It was a Private Email.
but then S. Nelson posted online.
Debated today on all media.


Not meant for the Public.



[William Sitwell has resigned after
he told vegan freelancer Selene Nelson (above)
in response to her story pitch:
'How about a series on killing vegans, one by one' ]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-vegans.html

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Never make jokes in emails. Especially to middle-class, quinoa munching, hand-wringing twats.
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Never make jokes in emails. Especially to middle-class, quinoa munching, hand-wringing twats.

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She's a freelancer. Hopefully enough editors will have seen this for her never to sell another article.
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She's a freelancer. Hopefully enough editors will have seen this for her never to sell another article.

Yes happy to post the full private
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again

he was forced to go due to a fear of blame from people higher than him - people who wish to protect their elite status and belongings

as for her?

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It just screams ignorance & hate speech tbh. Imagine if he'd joked about force-feeding non-kosher food to Jewish people for example, there would be OUTRAGE (and rightly so).

The fact that it was a written email makes it so much worse. If it had just been the 'what about killing vegans one by one' comment as part of dark humour in a RL conversation, it would be somewhat forgiveable - a reprimanding rather than being fired. But the context just makes it seem like it comes from a place of hate.

Bit worrying when you have twats like this in journalism
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Tbh the article is written really weirdly though. I'm genuinely getting confused over which person said what

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From what I gather, she didn't say any of the offensive bits. She went to him asking to write a vegan section in the magazine (vegan recipes etc.) and he responded with the anti-vegan "jokes".
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So, in other words, she just wanted to write about veganism. She never said anything about killing vegans or any of the other stuff.. right?
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So, in other words, she just wanted to write about veganism. She never said anything about killing vegans or any of the other stuff.. right?



He wrote the Joke Private Email.
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They'll tell you. Again. And again. And again.
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How can you tell if someone is vegan?
They'll tell you. Again. And again. And again.

Yes those kinds of Vegans
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This country is totally losing its sense of humour.
Including this vegan woman.
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Great debate n LBC now
about Vegan Terrorist's
who will stand outside a Legal Meat Butcher's
and get in the way of customers,


Fecking Arrest Them

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