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    1. David Olusoga‏Verified account @DavidOlusoga 19 Feb 2018

      I'm horrified to see @wmarybeard is the focus of such horrible attacks on Twitter. The idea that my friend Mary is some sort of Neo-colonialist is ridiculous. Looking for reasons is not the same as condoning!

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    2. James E. Baldwin‏ @james_e_baldwin 20 Feb 2018
      Replying to @DavidOlusoga @wmarybeard

      Perhaps there are things I've missed, but the responses to Mary Beard's tweet I saw were reasoned criticism rather than horrible abuse. Looking for reasons is fine, but some conclusions deserve criticism and "it's hard to maintain *our* values when we go *there*" is one of them.

      2 replies 3 retweets 111 likes
      David Olusoga‏Verified account @DavidOlusoga 20 Feb 2018
      Replying to @james_e_baldwin @wmarybeard

      Yeah, the responses of a lynch mob. I know Mary. That is a million miles from what she meant. You put a word in quotes in order to critique it. And unsurprisingly that's a word she's be thinking critically about a lot for past 3 years. Twitter fails at nuance - again.

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        1. James E. Baldwin‏ @james_e_baldwin 20 Feb 2018
          Replying to @DavidOlusoga @wmarybeard

          I agree that Twitter isn't good at nuance. But I didn't see a lynch mob, I saw people carefully and politely explaining why the tweet was offensive.

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        1. Adam Lowe, AKA Beyonce Holes‏ @adambeyoncelowe 20 Feb 2018
          Replying to @DavidOlusoga @james_e_baldwin @wmarybeard

          Comparing legitimate critique of white tears to a lynch mob is beyond offensive. Defending your friend at the cost of what's right makes your actions worse than hers. Have a word with yourself.

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        2. sarah keenan‏ @sarahjkeenan 20 Feb 2018
          Replying to @DavidOlusoga @james_e_baldwin @wmarybeard

          What white people mean and what they actually do are often worlds apart. History is replete with well-meaning white peoples who have done untold damage to people of colour. Racism is about power, not about what white people ‘really mean’

          1 reply 31 retweets 131 likes
        3. Polly Pallister-Wilkins‏ @PollyWilkins 20 Feb 2018
          Replying to @sarahjkeenan @DavidOlusoga and

          Can I borrow this wonderfully succinct point for my class on colonial humanitarianism on Thursday?

          1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
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        2. Ohnojamie2 #IStandWithJeremyCorbyn  🇵🇸‏ @Ohnojamie2 20 Feb 2018
          Replying to @DavidOlusoga @james_e_baldwin @wmarybeard

          I criticized her tweet... And I offered support when she was upset. At what point was I making myself a member of a lynch mob?

          2 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
        3. Ohnojamie2 #IStandWithJeremyCorbyn  🇵🇸‏ @Ohnojamie2 20 Feb 2018
          Replying to @Ohnojamie2 @DavidOlusoga and

          This feels like a rerun of Mary's own tweet experience ( and a gazillion other Twitter discussions) . Make an ill thought out tweet and then dig the hole deeper and deeper through denial, as people point out the error.

          0 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
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        2. Nadine El-Enany‏ @NadineElEnany 20 Feb 2018
          Replying to @DavidOlusoga @james_e_baldwin @wmarybeard

          I'm surprised to see a renowned historian of black history use the word 'lynch mob' to describe a Twitter storm, especially one which primarily involves sustained critique of an influential white woman by woc. It is inappropriate and offensive to the history of actual lynchings

          1 reply 10 retweets 51 likes
        3. Sitara Parker‏ @Sitara_Parker 20 Feb 2018
          Replying to @NadineElEnany @DavidOlusoga and

          It is all about reverse victimisation, don't you know? Witch hunts of roving #metoo fanatics and what not...same play.

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        2. Siddharth Soni‏ @_siddharthsoni 20 Feb 2018
          Replying to @DavidOlusoga @james_e_baldwin @wmarybeard

          Outrageous as the tweet was, our real problem is with the *nuance* she laid out in her follow up. Calls to 'look for reasons' why white men feel entitled to rape black women denies agency/being to blacks. Mary had been carrying this old, racist, colonial habit of mind unchecked.

          1 reply 2 retweets 14 likes
        3. Dr Sarah Jilani‏ @sarahjilani 20 Feb 2018
          Replying to @_siddharthsoni @DavidOlusoga and

          Not to mention whether anyone seeking to inject some "nuance" into motivations for child & female exploitation should ever not be scrutinised rigorously for the content & motivation (consciously or not) of their doing so: what most of the measured responses sought to do.

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