Why William Sitwell’s vegan mockery is not a sackable offence

The editor of Waitrose magazine has quit after a row over his suggestion of a series on ‘killing vegans’ in reply to a cookery writer’s pitch. But let’s see this for what it really is

William Sitwell was, until yesterday, the editor of Waitrose magazine. He was known for his ways, which to some seemed debonair and urbane, to others seemed chokingly entitled. I have no view: I never saw the ways, I merely heard about the ways. 

A freelance writer, Selene Nelson, contacted him offering a series on vegan cookery, and he replied: “How about a series on killing vegans, one by one. Ways to trap them? How to interrogate them properly? Exposing their hypocrisy? Force-feed them meat? Make them eat steak and drink red wine?”

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2QgLGSw

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