Mr Dunlop reads another Wings tweet about his Bath MP, saying “die you c**t”. Isn’t this “abusive”? Mr Campbell says the tweet is “extremely angry”. He says the tweet is a “justified response in context” - he disagrees with Mr Dunlop that this is abusive.
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Sheriff Ross intervenes to ask what distinction Mr Campbell is drawing between being rude and being abusive; he says abuse would be attacking people “without provocation”. “So one is discerning and the other isn’t?” the sheriff asks? “Yes”
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Mr Dunlop running through a series of other Wings tweets, highlighting what he says is personal criticism of David Mundell; Mr Campbell says it was “not his gayness” that he was criticising.
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Just in case things weren’t contentious enough, the court is now getting into whether Mr Campbell thinks Chelsea Manning is a woman or not. Mr Dunlop says if Mr Campbell is entitled to the view that Chelsea Manning is a man, aren’t others entitled to the view that CM is a woman?
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Mr Campbell says “if I proclaim I’m Napoleon, am I? If I proclaim I’m black, am I?” He says people “should be allowed to live their lives however they want”, but he objects to “people ordering me” to say something he doesn’t believe is true - that Chelsea Manning is a woman.
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Mr Dunlop and Mr Campbell are having quite a lengthy exchange about the difference between “transgender” and “transsexual” and the use of various pronouns; Sheriff Ross asks if this line of questioning is really worth pursuing
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Back to the video game comment about “girls and homosexuals”, which was mentioned earlier; Mr Dunlop says this was “demeaning and offensive”. Mr Campbell says he was writing “ironically and satirically”, and would have been understood to be by any reader of that site at the time
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Mr Campbell rejects that he is a transphobe; he says he thinks Chelsea Manning is a “hero” and “fabulous”. But he says it’s “delusional” of CM to claim to be a woman. Mr Dunlop asks if that is intolerant; “no, I don’t believe the statement of biological fact is intolerance”
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Mr Campbell also says it’s “absolutely untrue” that he was homophobic in his Mundell tweet. If he had “avoided” the “most obvious route” by which Oliver Mundell could have been not born, *that* would have been him treating David Mundell differently on account of his sexuality.
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Mr Dunlop wraps up by suggesting to Mr Campbell that “politeness is not your forte”; “I am perfectly capable of being polite” he says. “If people address me aggressively and rudely, I will be aggressive and rude back.”
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