to want to know what the offensive tweet about Captain Tom Moore said?

[1000umbrellas]

A man has been charged by the police after making an offensive tweet about Captain Tom Moore. Obviously a nasty and mean-spirited thing to do. But ever since I read the headline I can't stop wondering what it said to get the man charged. I avoid Twitter generally because impression is that it is mostly a cesspit of vile abuse, so what can this man have said that is worse? It can't have been a death threat; racist or homophobic abuse seems unlikely, and being really, really mean on the internet isn't illegal. This is not a sly invitation to pile on with insults to Captain Tom Moore btw! I am just genuinely perplexed.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-55986646

Was it the vicar tweeting?

AStudyInPink you know absolutely nothing then do you. You may want to avail yourself of more info before you go making judgements

If you read my comments, you’ll see I commented on what I did know. Only that. And the judgement I made about what I did know, I think is the right one. So... 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mr kelly may be all over his social media in a Celtic too but can I point out any idiot can buy a football top. This no more means they represent the club and the majority views of football supporters than the QAnon guy with the horns represents most American republicans in his thoughts. Continually trying to link this to a football club is out of order and only by sensible and sane people distancing this from football can we even begin to move away.

More than one person has tried to link this to football on this thread. Time to move sectarianism beyond football to what it is and stop reinforcing the rhetoric.

And just for the record, I’m a completely non religious Celtic season book holder from a Protestant family where my grandfather marched the orange walk and my uncle is a mason. Go figure.

Nobody's saying he's representing Celtic or that his tweet is linked to football.

But it's not accurate to say that sectarianism is not linked to the old firm. It's very much "a Catholic team" and "a Protestant team". I appreciate not everyone fits that, like you RJ, but you can't deny the demographics. Especially the other way round, a Catholic Rangers supporter is almost unheard of.

Of course sectarianism is much wider than football, but it's undeniable that football has been made a part of it (doesn't mean it's that way for all fans of course).

Oops my joke did in fact offend too many people.
Sorry!

@7Days
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7days I didn't see it, wish I had now if it was a joke 😬

I would say it's Catholic, or Irish Catholic, hating British soldiers due to their peace keeping in N Ireland in Thatchers time (the idiot is in cCeltic colours) .

It's effing ridiculous - religions so important to them that they hate and want to kill others - hardly following Jesus' teachings.
It's an excuse for yobs to behave Yobbishly.

I’m sure had the tweeter used the word ‘terf’ instead of the ald fellas name it would have gone unremarked upon. It might have even been RTed by celebrities and politicians.

*Blimey. So you can get away with racism, homophobia and promotion of paedophilia on twitter but this bloke apparently crossed the line? Fascinating.

eek, went too early - what i meant to add was that if any action is taken it makes it easier to report other hate-speech to twitter/the police, doesn't it?

Being Catholic is not sectarian
Bring Protestant is not sectarian

Bring sectarian is sectarian and if the idiots weren’t pinning their colours to religion via some perceived association to football (Celtic is and always was a club open to anyone btw) it would be something else.

Blonde v brunette, short v tall, beard v non beard. Let’s stop humouring them with the pretence they have some sort of cause and linking their actions in any way to football. There was absolutely no need for anyone to link the bigotry of mr kelly to this thread, among sn audience which were largely non footballing, except to reinforce the concept.

I didn't say being a particular religion was sectarian, RJ, I think you're reading things into my post that are not there.

What I am saying, is that you're not being accurate saying there's no sectarianism in football - there absolutely is where Rangers and Celtic are concerned.

I don't believe that you can truthfully say there is no sectarianism visible among Old Firm supporters. I can understand fans like you wanting to distance themselves and the clubs from sectarianism, but you can't just deny it's there when everyone can see it. Sectarianism doesn't start and end with the old firm, but they have long been inextricably linked.

Sectarianism is different from transphobia, homophobia, ableism, etc - because it’s strongly linked to organised crime, gangs, gang violence, turf (as opposed to terf) battles, drugs, all that stuff.

The police involvement isn’t “just” because it’s hate speech. It’s because it’s sectarian.

I wish they'd do away with separate Catholic and Protestant schools - any religion come to that