'The Room Had Started To Smell. Really Quite Bad': Stephen Fry Exits Twitter (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: For a man so readily associated with words — and certainly for a wordsmith so enamored with technology — Twitter seems like something of a natural home for Stephen Fry. Over the years he has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers, but last night he closed his account. Fry's latest exit from Twitter (there have been several over the last few years for numerous reasons) came about because of the backlash he received for making a joke at an award ceremony. Hosting the BATFAs (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) on Sunday, he referred to costume designer and award winner (and, indeed, friend) Jenny Beavan as being 'dressed as a bag lady'. 'Offended' Twitter users attacked Fry in their droves, and he fought a valiant battle, before eventually giving up and terminating his account. It comes just days after Twitter set up a new Trust & Safety Council.

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Re:Who's Steven Fry?

[Hognoxious]

A pretentious ponce who can dish it out but can't take it.

Re:These people don't stop existing, though

[mjwx]

Well this is a whole new breed of cunt. The previous generation of cunts would call you dirty names and shit, however the new generation of cunts call themselves "politically correct" and will use clean sounding but still inappropriately placed words like "racist" "bigot" "misogynist" "homophobe" or label you as one who uses "hate speech", even when none of these terms apply to you in any way possible. In other words, the old cunts were hecklers, the new cunts are self-righteous assholes.

Sorry, but the true cunts are the ones who are "racist", "homophobic", "misogynistic\misandirstic" or any other form of bigotry. These people like to claim the world is "politically correct" when someone calls them out on their fucktardery because they like to think that the "ERMARGERD, Teh PC's are gon madz" is a good way to shut down anyone pointing out that they're an absolute arsehole that should not be allowed out in public without an armed escort and ball gag. Real cunts are the ones using made up terms like "SJW" and "White Knight" to label anyone who points out that their biggotry is bullshit and they really dont want to hear it, apparently the right not to have to put up with cunts, arseholes and wankers is one we no longer have because "teh PC'zzzz".

If you are told to shut up because you're racist, homophobic, sexist or whatever, it's not the Political Correctness lords trying to silence you. It's because you sound like a complete twat and people are sick of you.

Also in case you didn't get the point, people who use "PC", "SJW", "White Knight" and the like are almost always full of shit. So it's a safe bet to call them on it.

If you need a video, just look at how the likes of the EDL or Reclaim Australia act. Frankly I choose not to watch that bullshit.