My take on the Meghan/Piers Morgan stuff; I can’t stand Morgan and don’t feel a lot of sympathy for him for quitting his job, he dishes it out and then some and should be a bigger man when someone pushes back to him. I’m not entirely sure how he keeps getting these jobs at CNN and ITV either, he must have great contacts. And I must admit I haven’t seen all of the stuff he has said about Meghan. But all of that aside, I think he should be allowed to have an opinion on her. I don’t particularly like Meghan either, has nothing to do with the colour of her skin. Won’t address the specific claims about her mental health but in general, she just doesn’t come across very genuine or sincere, to me she comes across a bit disingenuous. The problem we have now is that anyone who is critical of her or doesn’t like her gets painted as a racist. That is not a good place to be. People shouldn’t have to walk on eggshells with regards to voicing an opinion. That doesn’t give people the right to be offensive but I think a lot of people do feel freedom of speech is a precarious thing in 2021.
Ricky Gervais does a very funny bit about offence in his stand up. Essentially people follow him on twitter who gervais doesn’t know or follow back and get offended at something he tweets out to the world. It’s like walking in the town centre and seeing an advert for guitar lessons and shouting “I don’t fudging want guitar lessons”.