Posted on 11/07/2025 4:15:54 AM PST by C19fan
A writer who led the charge against a fellow author over claims her award-winning memoir was racist has posted a tearful video begging people not to drag up the 'past'.
Monisha Rajesh, who is now an author in her own right, was one of the earliest critics of Kate Clanchy's 2020 book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, which won the prestigious Orwell Prize for political writing.
The memoir, based on Clanchy's 30 years teaching in state schools, came under fire a year after its release when readers accused her of using 'racist' and 'dehumanising' descriptions of pupils' physical appearances.
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Rules for me not for thee.
Sorry but not only does her past need to be ALL drug up it needs to be plastered publicly everywhere and sown into her life like a scarlet letter.
She determined how others should judge her life now she should live by that choice. She is not repentant, she just believes she is a special case and should not be held to the same standard
Yep, live by the sword, die by the sword.... glass houses ‘n all dat.
Another snot-nosed leftie’s chickens coming home to roost.
Chickens who roost in glass houses should never throw swords.
Imagine an Indian woman accusing someone else of racism. What caste does Monisha Rajesh belong to?
I would dredge up that past and use a seagoing tugboat to do it.
Until these people face the consequences of what the have done, they will continue to do it.
Pathetic.
I must need more coffee. I don’t see the point of this at all. Some people did something? One woman said something about another, but there were skeletons in her own closet? I want my ten minutes back!
11 minutes.
Not only did you waste 10 minutes of your life reading the article, but then wasted another minute to post this rant about an article whose subject you don't care about.
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