@Weebleweeble
OMG - I'm pretty sure the abuse that Priti Patel receives over twitter etc and email make the footie players abuse look like a pixie fairy tale - the abuse she receives on here is pretty bad - Diane Abbott similar, but hey they're women who gives a shit.
Social media falling over themselves to remove tweets but when women are threatened with rape and murder or receive racist abuse - oh, well, tha'ts life!! Stop making a fuss.
Agreed. I was going to mention the same, but in the current environment I am actually afraid of voicing an opinion against the trend.
Make no mistake, I am not a fan of PP, but the abuse that she, and Diane Abbot, and in fact most female MP's have received over many years, with little support or condemnation is frankly appalling. JKR and many, many others, have never had much public support for the female centered insults, rape and death threats they have received. Why not? Because it doesn't suit the current narrative.
I was appalled that the Guardian was not called out for printing a cartoon of PP as a fatted cow. Both racially and religiously abusive.
Abusive and aggressive social media posts to all and anyone should be called out and dealt by both SM companies, and the authorities.
As for taking the knee, I am on the fence. I don't really care either way. If you want to do it, fine, if you don't fine. It's rather like the poppy police, I don't wear a poppy, but that doesn't mean I don't acknowledge or care about the sacrifice of others. I just don't do what one could indeed call "gesture politics".