Umm, @JuliaHB1. If you attempt to explain away racist hate crime and you attract (ugly) flak for doing so that's on you.pic.twitter.com/KXa1WGJqWF
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Twitter doesn't do tweets 'directly' - they're all public. Best that can be done is to refer directly to people in a tweet.
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