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In reply to the discussion: Catherine, Princess of Wales, announces she has cancer [View all]Sympthsical
(9,143 posts)17. Just going to C&P what I said the other day
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18792362
No amount of Very Serious Internet Commentary makes it any more care-worthy - that's just people self-justifying why they wasted so much time on this. Because they, being Very Serious People, would never be so stupidly frivolous about gossip.
But I'm reminded of Diana. Before she died, the tabloids were rotten to her. The readers loved it the more rotten they got. The public was totally awful. And then she died. And it was instant canonization by the press. People wept in the streets. "She was our living angel!*sob*" Oh, was she? Was that before or after you eagerly devoured three articles slut-shaming her over your morning tomato beans? And so they all decided this was somehow Queen Elizabeth's fault. For . . . reasons? Because they had to deflect their own shittiness somewhere.
Kate had serious surgery. She noted when she'd be recovered. The end.
But people had to do what they do. Good thing it wasn't more serious. Imagine if Kate was in a bad way and died? It would instantly be William's fault everyone was being so shitty and weird about it. Obviously.
No amount of Very Serious Internet Commentary makes it any more care-worthy - that's just people self-justifying why they wasted so much time on this. Because they, being Very Serious People, would never be so stupidly frivolous about gossip.
But I'm reminded of Diana. Before she died, the tabloids were rotten to her. The readers loved it the more rotten they got. The public was totally awful. And then she died. And it was instant canonization by the press. People wept in the streets. "She was our living angel!*sob*" Oh, was she? Was that before or after you eagerly devoured three articles slut-shaming her over your morning tomato beans? And so they all decided this was somehow Queen Elizabeth's fault. For . . . reasons? Because they had to deflect their own shittiness somewhere.
Kate had serious surgery. She noted when she'd be recovered. The end.
But people had to do what they do. Good thing it wasn't more serious. Imagine if Kate was in a bad way and died? It would instantly be William's fault everyone was being so shitty and weird about it. Obviously.
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Yeah the palace made people spend hours upon hours having online CT orgies over a woman's health.
BannonsLiver
Mar 22
#31
i think it became the people's business when she and the palace went on the attack against her sister in law's myriad of
CatWoman
Mar 22
#40
Yes, and staff at the hospitals illegally accessed her medical records and were selling them to the tabloids
meadowlander
Mar 22
#15
and they are the one's who created this hornet's nest with all the lies and leaking they did on the Sussexes
CatWoman
Mar 22
#24
Very true. And who knows what her abdominal surgery was for. I'm hoping that they just discovered the cancer
beaglelover
Mar 22
#28
That's how Congressman Castro found out about his cancer. He got in a accident while in Spain.
LeftInTX
Mar 22
#36
They were picking the right moment to tell the kids and waited for the Easter school holidays
meadowlander
Mar 22
#46