Twitter is just such a medium. If you’re high profile, and wade in wish at such a controversial opinion, you’re going to get both barrels & all the rest.
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Her opinion was, frankly, awful. And if you stick it out there, in the public domain, you’ll get a huge amount of feedback, good & bad.
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No, her opinion was nuanced and contextual. If that makes it too complicated for some people, maybe they should do a bit more reading.
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Well, first I’d say that Twitter isn’t a platform that naturally lends itself to nuance & context. But even being charitable, when you go into bat to defend ‘alleged’ misdeeds that have already been effectively admitted, it isn’t really a good look
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And, frankly, it’s still an awful take. Offering solace to those who do awful things in extremis is incredibly demeaning to the vast majority who do not.
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She didn’t.
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She really did. These were to two tweets she sent - the ‘allegedly’ problem, and then the pseudo-justification.pic.twitter.com/JMS0yuL7cQ
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@InLimboBrexit , Julia? How many of our European friends are abused in the streets, on social media day in day out? David Lammy gets a tweet telling him to go back to Africa and death threats. Where is your outrage for them? -
Who suggested that was acceptable? Are you outraged by everything bad that happens in the world every moment of every day? How exhausting.
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Julia, you tweeted the outrage

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In fact you were so angry you tweeted about it 3 times in 3 minutes.
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Read properly? What on earth does that mean?
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Mary said some rather silly stuff about the Oxfam scandal. She doesn't deserve to be trolled but she did deserve to be pulled up over it.
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Absolutely. Twitter is a medium where we can share differing opinions. The problem is when passionately held views - even when one party seems them offensive - aren’t debated with courtesy and then just descend into abuse.
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It's not good but it's a fact of life on social media. I've been at the receiving end of plenty of it - water off a duck's back now. Perhaps Mary isn't cut out for SM? Not everyone is.
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Yes, you need a skin like a rhino to take some of the abuse on here. As a Jewish woman and a Brexiteer it can be pretty tough going sometimes! And frustrating too when other side doesn’t want to engage in factual debate. Not for everyone, you’re right.
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I'm also a Brexiteer - so I hear ya! :)
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