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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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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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mmccarthy in reply to @itsbruce

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

Nicely ties in with the post above about the Telegraph using article views as a metric to determine writers' pay.
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Markyboy in reply to @itsbruce

She's come a long way since she and Tony Parsons rocked up at the NME as the hip young gunslingers. Toby Young used to hang on her every word in the mid 80s, which probably tells you everything you need to know.

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