The diatribe against Meghan shows how low the rightwing media is willing to go
What good can possibly come of reacting to Jeremy Clarkson? It is his manifest purpose, his life’s work to rile the right-thinking, so that he can laugh at humourless libtards. It was all for this that he wrote in the Sun of his “cellular level” loathing for the Duchess of Sussex; trotted out a tired Game of Thrones cliche, fantasising about her being paraded naked down the street, while people hurled excrement at her; described her marital relationship as her hand in “her ginger glove puppet”.
He seemingly pinballed from one sexist, racist trope to another – the implication from his column being that Meghan is the manipulator, the voodoo priestess, the narcissist, the liar, the bewitcher, the polluter – for one purpose, which was to get people up in arms. Many public figures – from Carol Vorderman to Philip Pullman – took to social media to express their horror at these essentially violent fantasies.
Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist
Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.
