This ‘diversity champ’ needs history lesson
It’s only right that Stephanie Yeboah has been sacked as Grazia magazine’s ‘diversity champion’ for her hateful remarks about the Holocaust and in particular her antisemitic comments.
If Ms Yeboah had studied her history, she would have discovered that, just like the Jews, black people were treated as inferior by the Nazis.
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I was shocked to read about Stephanie Yeboah’s antisemitic remarks. When you want respect you have to give respect, no matter who you are, or what race you are. It’s not a one-way street.
M. Simmons, London
Surely a person’s private, off-duty tweets, however incongruous the views expressed may seem within their work capacity, are their own business, as long as they, in their staff persona, are publicly seen to uphold the codes of their employers during work hours.
F. Harvey, Bristol
I hope Grazia sues Ms Yeboah for badly damaging its brand and losing it sales and advertising revenue. I think the damage will run to millions. It could take all of her current assets and lay claim to future earnings.
O. Howard, London
It is because of such flippant remarks that we should make sure we never forget. My father was at the liberation of Belsen – the horrors stayed with him all his life. Sit her in a locked room for a week and show her every awful documentary on this terrifying episode in history.
Katie Luke, Eastbourne
Stephanie Yeboah said she had had ‘in-depth chats’ with her Jewish friends ‘surrounding the culture, heritage and religion of Jewish people’. She was obviously doing all of the talking and none of the listening.
E. Young, East Yorkshire
It’s not a question of Ms Yeboah educating herself. This was a fully conscious comment about genocidal atrocities.
If it was a Jewish person commenting on slavery, they would get a call from the police. It’s nauseating double standards.
M. Dixon, Taunton
We’re all guilty of ignorance and intolerance so please don’t preach about getting educated unless you, too, are willing to do the same. That’s true equality.
L. Leith, Essex
The majority of these ‘equality and diversity’ non-jobs exist to champion their own causes. They don’t want anyone else’s agenda or feelings to come into the equation.
Rufus Frost, Forfar
It’s crazy to use Auschwitz to bring attention to black genocide. The whole idea behind Black Lives Matter, which Stephanie Yeboah supports, is about saying that while all lives matter, certain sectors of society currently suffering need more attention. It feels so hypocritical for her to express the view that she did.