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Ken Livingstone refuse to apologise at press conference London
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From: politics report
Category: Life
Date: 22 February 2005

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Ken won't apologise because the Daily Mail once supported the Nazis, and is a racist rag, or some such reasoning...Comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard, after you've called him a Nazi and he's told you he is Jewish, seems prima facie a stupid thing to do and worth saying sorry for.

Let's compare: Would it be apologisable to say a black person is acting like a Klan wizard, or a Kurd that he is like Saddam Hussein, or a.... well the terms are not so distinct in our minds.

Ken's press conference performance was a bit loony, Thatcher at the end stuff, I'm loving this conflict, which is unimpressive, wood for trees, it's kind of nasty using metaphors which refer to the the ethnic history of a person, especially history like the Holocaust which has sush emotional resonance. It is not per se, racist or anti-semitic, just an ugly mistake for a multi-culturalist politician like Livingstone.

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