People are furious about this 'anti-semitic' and 'sexist' column on equal pay

A Sunday Times column in their Irish edition entitled 'sorry ladies - equal pay has to be earned' has enraged Twitter users.

Kevin Myers' column on equal pay, after some remarks many considered overtly sexist, swerved into remarks about Jewish people many considered overtly anti-semitic.

Picture: The Sunday Times (Ireland)/ClipShare

Kevin Myers, discussing the revelations that many female presenters at the BBC are being paid less than their many of male counterparts, had this to say:

I note that two of the best-paid women presenters in the BBC - Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz, with whose, no doubt sterling work I am tragically unacquainted - are Jewish.

Good for them.

Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity.

I wonder, who are their agents?

If they're the same ones that negotiated the pay for women on the lower scales, then maybe the latter have found their true value in the market place.

Picture: The Sunday Times (Ireland), Kevin Myers/ClipShare

Prior to this, he asks if the women working at the BBC have an 'unter-agent' working for them.

The reason he sought to invoke Nazi terms like 'unter-mensch' as a segue to discussing Jewish people is probably best known to him.

In 2009, Myers defended the words of Bishop Richard Williamson, who was accused of being a holocaust denier.

Myers did this, bombastically titled his own column for the Belfast Telegraph:

I'm a holocaust denier, but I also believe the Nazis planned the extermination of the Jewish people.

Myers' latest piece also contains such gems as: 'men tend to be more ambitious', and how the only mood female columnists can have is an 'angry one':

And ask yourself. How many women are billionaires?

Chess grandmasters Mathematicians?

There's a connection.

Mastery of money usually requires singular drive, ruthless logic and instant, arctic cold arithmetic.

And his reasoning for why nine of the top 10 best-paid presenters at the BBC are men?

The human resources department...will probably tell you that men usually work harder, get sick less frequently and seldom get pregnant.

Myers' words have been described as 'the language of NF [National Front]' and 'undiluted anti-semitism'.

There was stronger outrage, but indy100 thought it best not to flood your screen with repeated references to the C-word.

As Felicity Morse of the i pointed out, Myers penned a column in 2008 entitled 'Africa is giving nothing to anyone - apart from Aids'.

This post was deleted from the website of the Irish Independent, but it, and Myers' defence of the piece is reprinted on this blog called 'Nationalist Standpoints'.

Editor and writer Padraig Reidy, better acquainted with Myers' body of work, have welcomed Great Britain to the fold of Myers bashing.

The article has since been removed from the website of the Sunday Times.

Picture: The Sunday Times website screenshot

Within the print edition, the story is placed beneath a cartoon that criticises President Donald Trump's ban on transgender troops, and his previous brags about sexual harassment of women.

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