Posted on 07/13/2016 6:38:42 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The human rights activist and former actress apologizes "for posting a despicable tweet by mistake."
A Twitter firestorm erupted after human rights activist and former actress Bianca Jagger shared a post Tuesday described as "racist, homophobic and disgusting" that included a list of British lawmakers who voted in favor of entering the Iraq War in 2003.
The 71-year-old said she was "mortified" in an apology issued after tweeting a link to the Metapedia website, described as an electronic encyclopedia.
According to British media, the ex-wife of famed rocker Mick Jagger claimed that she was unaware of the contents of the table of politicians that described many of the British parliamentarians who backed the Iraq War in anti-Semitic and derogatory terms.
Alongside the names of the politicians, the list included a "note" column that mentioned the purported ethnicity and sexual orientation of the MPs, labeling some as "Jew," Jewess," "openly homosexual," "negro" and "Judeo-negress hybrid," according to the British Telegraph.
The list also reportedly noted the connections of some UK lawmakers to pro-Israel groups such as the Labour Friends of Israel and Conservative Friends of Israel.
Various British MPs fired back at Jagger with an onslaught of condemnation for the social media post.
Jagger, who is followed by some 54,000 Twitter users, later deleted the contested post and profusely apologized in multiple tweets "for posting a despicable tweet by mistake."
"I'm very sorry I posted a despicable tweet by mistake, I posted it at 4.15am without carefully reading its content," she tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
"I didn't carefully read the content of the website, I thought it was a straight forward list, not a racist, homophobic and disgusting list," wrote the Council of Europe Goodwill ambassador.
"Those who follow me know that I have posted thousands of tweets denouncing racism, bigotry, homophobia," she stressed.
She didn’t go back and “help” Nicaragua after her Rolling Stones gig?
Really overlooked it or plausible deniability?
Who knows.
A lot of hate towards Jews is not even on account of anything they really did, but on account of the God of the bible who bestowed a promise upon them.
“Who are YOU to think you have anything good coming from God?” It was said to them at the beginning and has been said to them ever since.
She was up late, drunk and stoned, and posted based on the headline.
Just like 75% of Freepers.
Glad you remembered her asskissing of the Marxist torturers and killers of the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua.
Once a whore, always a whore.
Central American Marxists are famous for their anti-Semitism, so it probably wasn’t a mistake.
hey I’m only drunk, not stoned!
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Sounds to me like she made a mistake, and is quite open and apologetic about it. If Presidential candidates do it, celebrities can be expected to make mistakes too.
Haha. Jokes on you. I’m up early, drunk and stoned.
You've been up all night:)
Heck no. I passed out at 8PM last night.
If you are going to drink all day, you have to start in the morning....Ocracoke motto
(Actually I’m at work but a guy can dream)
Wait WAIT I read all of 50% of your post..read more...click link
She’s an idiot, not an antisemite.
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