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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

Davriellelouna @lemmy.world

1w ago

People who urge crowds to burn down hotels full of refugees should absolutely be arrested. This isn't free speech. It's far-right thuggery. Also, you didn't beat shit. The French military did.

This woman urged people to set hotels on fire

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v5926yeqro

Fuck this shit. This isn't free speech.

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A tweet.
She literally called, at a time of particular social tension after a mass murder of children, for people to be burned alive, whose crime was being brown and in her country. Men, women, and children.
She's been lauded as some kind of martyr by the right, who compare every other sentence to hers.
She's a piece of shit, as evidenced by her acting like a piece of shit.
- Yeah, people trying to downplay it are as "just a tweet" are also pieces of shit. The way she said it is irrelevant.
  What is relevant is that as she was calling for hotels full of people to set on fire, there were people trying to set hotels on fire.
  She called for people to be murdered, then others attempted it, she got off lightly.
- I hope her death is slow, agonizing, and humiliating.
- Agreed. Also, she pled guilty.
Good job they beat the redcoats 250 years ago or they’d have an unchallenged tyrant now ruling by dictat with thugs snatching people off the streets extra-judicially.
- Wait a minute...
Not so much beat them, as "became so much of a nuisance that it wasn't worth crossing the ocean to keep us"
Also, I actually agree with the sentiment that the 2nd is to protect the 1st, but here we are with another school shooting and a president that wants to revoke broadcasting licenses for anyone who disagrees with him.
Also, you didn't beat shit. The French military did.
That's some revisionism there... You know that the British had a bunch of Germans as well right? 30,000 German/Hessian mercenaries (nearly half their forces). It would only be natural to work with the French considering the trade that they wanted to conduct with the Americas... If you're allowing the British to take the German numbers, you have to take the French "anti-numbers" as well.. since they only wanted to join in on the fun to spite the British.
- You're absolutely right, the results were murky with all the third party interference. Seems only fair we have a re-do. USA v Britain. Mano a mano, no seconds.
I’m OOTL, is this referencing certain kinds of tweets for which one can be arrested, or a specific tweet of some notoriety resulting in an arrest?
- A specific tweet in which someone called for hotels housing refugees (due to a backlog of asylum applications causing an overflow from purpose-built facilities) to be set on fire.
- This is the story:
  BBC News - Lucy Connolly released from prison after race hate post on X - BBC News
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po?app-referrer=search
  She's since become a bit of a cause celebre for the hard of thinking right wing establishment.
  EDIT
  Because that story doesn't have it, here's more context and what she said:
  In July last year, prompted by a false rumour that an illegal immigrant was responsible for the murder of three girls at a dance workshop in Southport, Connolly posted online calling for "mass deportation now", adding "set fire to all the... hotels [housing asylum seekers]... for all I care".
  Connolly, then a 41-year-old Northampton childminder, added: "If that makes me racist, so be it."
  EDIT 2 - in fact, her exact words were this:
  “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care … if that makes me racist so be it.”
  At the time she had about 9,000 followers on X. Her message was reposted 940 times and viewed 310,000 times, before she deleted it three and a half hours later.
  In October she was jailed after admitting inciting racial hatred.
  Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3nn60wyr6o
Is that his real username? You always hear about money not being able to buy class. I've just never seen a dude reflect it so much.
I get that you're angry you can't get a job after three years at uni and 50k in debt.
I get that you'll never have a home that you own.
I get that having children will be an unplanned, largely unfunded activity for you.
I'm get that being a twenty something influencer has cred, but as your retirement age goes up and up faster than your chronological age and the state keeps raiding your personal pension that you're forced to keep funding, spare a thought for the other influencers of 55 years that you'll become and those diminishing returns.
But this hill that you're stating that you wish to die on isn't the cleverest way to solve the previously stated problems, whether the migrants are illegal or just 'Mercans claiming to want to avoid Trump but actually looking for free NHS healthcare because they're getting old.
Console yourself that the political classes (stated in court) that they much prefer people from any other country over you, and that is why you to be a productive member of the populace and keep quiet.

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