Jeremy Stangroom

Yes. And the double standard is the vilification of Barr against the incredibly muted condemnation of Bee (when held up against what it's obvious the reaction would have been had the same thing been said about Pelosi, for example).

I completely disagree that there is a double standard involved. Countless people have explained the fundamental difference, I hope I don’t have to repeat it.

Oh well, if countless people have explained it, then it must be true. Silly me! Thanks for putting me straight!

That sounds, atypically for you, like a bad faith reply. It clearly distorts what I said. BTW, if I do need to explain the difference, I will, later today.

And let me take a guess at your "explanation". 1. Structural history of racism vs. vulgarity; 2. Barr's long history of problematic tweets, etc, (indicating not merely an intemperate tweet); 3. Barr is white, Bee is a woman. There's asymmetricality there in terms of target.

If that's the kind of thing you've got in mind, no need to repeat, I'd thought of all that approximately half a second after I started thinking about the issue (as evidenced in my first tweets about it yesterday).

So how are they then even remotely similar?

How is using a misogynistic slur, which has a long history of being used to silence and intimidate women, and which forms part of the linguistic weaponry ubiquitously employed by the alt-right, remotely similar to using a racist slur? Seriously, that's your question?