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Disassociative Apology Disorder

Disassociative Apology Disorder

A Labour MP wants everyone to know she didn't mean what she wrote and sent to a newspaper.

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Damian Penny
Apr 24, 2023
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The Holocaust. Jokes about redheaded people on South Park. All one and the same, says Labour MP Diane Abbott.

That's not true. I suspect Diane Abbott gets much more exercised about politically incorrect TV comedy shows than the attempted systematic extermination of the European Jews.

The Labour Party is no longer led by Jeremy Corbyn, so Abbott has been suspended from caucus. She’s issued an apology, and it raises even more questions:

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