Despite June being designated as ‘Pride month’, reports emerged on Sunday that UEFA could purportedly prevent Neuer from continuing to wear the rainbow armband throughout Euro 2020 this summer – despite the organization declaring an opposition to homophobia as a key part of their message. According to reports in Germany, …
Read More »Israeli PM Netanyahu condemns ‘incitement from any side’ amid backlash against coalition set to remove him from power
“I condemn all kinds of incitement and violence from any side,” Netanyahu said at a meeting of his party, Likud, as quoted by Haaretz newspaper. The PM added that incitement should be distinguished from free speech. Netanyahu’s comment came a day after the head of Israel’s domestic security service Shin …
Read More »Texas Dem party leader resigns after facing backlash for referring to Republican Tim Scott as an ‘Oreo’
O’Connor, the Democratic Party chairman in Lamar County, Texas, admitted in a public statement on Tuesday to using a “racist term” and said he’d “embarrassed” himself and his political party. “I am deeply and sincerely sorry for my inappropriate and hurtful use of [the] racist term I used to describe …
Read More »‘Cancel culture is a disease’: Actor Hank Azaria draws backlash after apology for voicing Simpsons’ Indian shopkeeper Apu
“I really do apologize,” Azaria said as he appeared on the Armchair Expert podcast and discussed his portrayal of ‘Kwik-E-Mart’ owner Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, who the actor announced earlier he would no longer voice. Azaria told the podcast’s Indian-American host Monica Padman that he feels he needs to “go to every …
Read More »‘Woke imperialism strikes again’: CNN faces backlash after it defends keeping US troops in Afghanistan by citing women’s rights
“Concerns mount that US withdrawal from Afghanistan could risk progress on women’s rights,” read the headline on the article published by the cable news channel on Saturday. Citing a chorus of Democratic and Republican lawmakers as well as several Afghan officials, the piece makes a case for keeping American troops …
Read More »Virginia lieutenant governor sees backlash for comparing calls to resign over sexual assault scandal to ‘being treated like Floyd’
Fairfax has left many of those following the Virginia Democratic primary debate on Tuesday night scratching their heads after he portrayed himself a victim of racial discrimination, and compared his situation to those of Floyd and Emmett Till, a teen who was lynched in Missisippi in 1955 after he was …
Read More »Australian police chief sparks backlash by proposing app to record sexual consent, later admitting it may be year’s ‘worst idea’
Mick Fuller, a police official in Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), first defended his proposal for a ‘consent app’ after a wave of criticism. He was quoted by APP as saying that the app would prevent sexual assault and also keep victims out of the justice system, …
Read More »Ragebait backlash continues after Journal of the American Medical Association tweets that ‘no physician is racist’
The ill-advised, offending tweet from the Journal of the American Medical Association boldly stated: “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” The promoted podcast in question was produced by two white doctors, a deputy journal editor and a physician who runs a New …
Read More »After backlash over ‘outside review’ of sexual-harassment claims, Cuomo asks AG & chief judge to pick counsel to investigate
The governor’s office wants the review of allegations by two former staffers to be “beyond reproach,” Beth Garvey, special counsel and senior adviser to Cuomo, said on Sunday in a statement. She added that the governor’s office had chosen former federal judge Barbara Jones to oversee the probe, citing her …
Read More »After backlash from hawks over cordial scenes in Moscow, EU’s foreign envoy backtracks, slamming Russia just days after visit
Writing in a blog post on Sunday, Brussels’ high representative for foreign affairs and security policy said that his trip last week had been an opportunity “to test, through principled diplomacy, whether the Russian government was interested in addressing differences and reversing the negative trend in our relations.” “The reaction …
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