Editors have normalised hate, from Rod Liddle to Katie Hopkins | Suzanne Moore

The publication of racist views is now permissible – and the print media is to blame

In 2010, I started a campaign against Rod Liddle becoming editor of the Independent as it was rumoured he would. When I say campaign, I mean that I joked on Facebook that I should be the editor, not him. People took it seriously as though there were a remote possibility of this when everyone knows I am allergic to offices, don’t believe in meetings longer than 10 minutes and am the world’s crappest schmoozer.

My credentials were simply that I loved that paper and did not want it edited by a racist misogynist, which is how I then perceived Liddle. The common assault on his pregnant girlfriend, for which he accepted a police caution but later denied, was public knowledge.

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