Blimey ..that’s novel ..I agree with a politician
Absolutely ridiculous. In 2021 we are told we must 'educate' ourselves, so how come 8 year old tweets from someone who was 18 - and has not posted anything similar since then suggesting he is a changed character is being punished so harshly?
Listened to a bit of TMS and they said that as the ECB were making a big push on their inclusivity campaign, that had to be seen to do something or it would invalidate the whole thing. Whilst it is probably too harsh a punishment for the actions of a wayward teenager, I can see why they did it as they would risk undoing all of their recent work. Does make you wonder who broke it and presumably sat on it for maximum impact.
Absolutely ridiculous. In 2021 we are told we must 'educate' ourselves, so how come 8 year old tweets from someone who was 18 - and has not posted anything similar since then suggesting he is a changed character is being punished so harshly?
He has to say that bearing in mind what his boss has said in the past and got away with! Whilst his tweets were wrong, even I as a snowflake lefty do also think Robinson has been overly harshly treated.
As an aside, the lives of these people who forensically go trough decade old social media posts from teenagers must be incredibly miserable.
It was a 'graduate' journalist apparently....
Another snowflake leftie here..
I really don't see the point of punishing someone who has/had racist feelings at 18 years of age.
The whole point of the anti-discrimination movement is to educate these people.
If the lad has admitted guilt,apologised and committed to educate himself, then what more do you want?
The witch hunt begins, pitchforks at the ready - the ECB wants to show they're right on. It is sad that even at 18 Robinson thought it cool or funny to post such cr@p on the internet - but even sadder are the saddoes that trawl through shedloads of historic stupidity to find some dirt, then sit on it only to release it in the middle of his test debut when it will get their oh so clever holier-than-thou trawling the maximum publicity.