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Sumo

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/16/julie-burchill-agrees-to-pay-ash-sarkar-substantial-damages-in-libel-case

Burchill also posted a series of further comments about Sarkar,
claiming that she was an Islamist, a terrorist sympathiser, and
speculating about her sex life.

As well as directing her Facebook followers to “wade in on Twitter”
against “the Islamists” and “nonces”, she wrote a crude poem about
Sarkar that featured a description of “a gender fluid threesome with
Marine Le Pen”. She also “liked” posts saying that Sarkar should kill
herself and suggesting that she was a victim of female genital
mutilation.

The admission of defamation will be viewed as an uncomfortable
concession for Burchill, whose interventions had been portrayed in
some coverage as a free speech issue, with Sarkar’s objections
reported as an example of the power of the “outrage mob”.

This is it, the perfect example of what the "free speach" lot actually mean. I can call you racist names cos free speach but if you push back then it's a hate mob.

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Stonehedge in reply to @Sumo

“Although it was not my intention, I accept that my statements were defamatory"

Fuck the fuck off.
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itsbruce in reply to @Sumo

She's just a professional contrarian (and narcissist, but that is essentially part of the definition of contrarian, I think). When she was younger that mean she used anarchist or left-wing ideas to provoke; too many other people were doing that so she pivoted on supporting Thatcher. It's a constant negative spiral and she's pretty much gone full fascist for some time now.

Nothing matters more to her than outrage and attention. So it goes.

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