Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
But did you say those things as a mature-aged newspaper editor, JH? It seems to me that saying stupid things, as a callow youth, to your mates at a drunken footy BBQ is one thing; taking time to write things, in a professional capacity, that you know will be published in the cold light of day, is another.
Yes, I’ve probably said many intolerant and insensitive things even after becoming mature age.
This is a new phenomenon, this ability (and the will to) trawl back through people’s past to ensure they held the ‘correct’ view, and I don’t think it’s healthy. People DO change, just as society’s values do.
Anyway, McCormack and the Nationals are surely objectionable enough in their current form without the need to dredge up 20 year old editorials?