Rachel Riley And Her Hate Mob

In a perfect display of why censorship is a bad idea, Katie Hopkins has had her twitter account suspended, and all her tweets deleted, by the company.

Oh, and in what has been a bad day for Ms Hopkins she has been awarded the ‘Cunt of the Year’ cup, (Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy)(it’s worth watching the video in the Mirror story, to see just how desperate celebs, like Ms Hopkins, are to win awards).

Apparently Ms Hopkins fell foul of a coalition between (not Carol Vorderman) Rachel Riley and the Center for Countering Digital Hate who lobbied Twitter to get her banned. Also in their sights is George Galloway, the controversial, and occasionally inflammatory, sometime MP and activist.

Obviously (not Carol Vorderman) Ms Riley is delighted by the outcome, and will no doubt feel vindicated as she has been the target of abuse. Apparently the British don’t like hate: and maybe we don’t; but the British dislike liars even more: and, all this ‘activism’ does is hide the evidence.

Riddle me this…

Let’s assume that before the last election,the Center for Countering Hate and (not Carol Vorderman) Ms Riley’s lobby group Mainstream had succeeded, and all hate had been driven off the internet (or Twitter at least): (obviously allowing for the socially acceptable forms of hate directed at men, the old, white people, Christians, coconuts and the like… one doesn’t expect miracles; or the people running this ‘campaign’ not to be hypocrites).

The fact is (even allowing for Brexit) Labour would have won.

It’s one thing for the Chief Rabbi to send letters warning of anti-Semitism… but why should anyone who is not Jewish give a toss what he says? Or indeed believe him? When all the evidence has been swept from the internet.

It is not pleasant to read the abuse thrown at Ian Austin, but it was a darned sight more effective in swaying voters than the letter he sent out. If people knew him at all, maybe they might know him as part of the New Labour government that suppressed free speech and covered up the grooming scandals by calling everyone who tried to raise the subject, racist…. which they did supposedly to stop anti-Muslim hatred (which apparently is (not Carol Vorderman) Rachel Riley’s new big thing)… and yes it is right that Waj Iqbal received damages for wrongly being linked to grooming: hence repeated warnings against linking #metoo to to the ongoing scandals.

But it doesn’t get around the fact that Labour probably would have won the last election, but for the unhinged and bile-filled behaviour of their online supporters (not just the anti-Semitism: they were, and continue to be, vile about everyone (who isn’t seen as an ally)).

Which is frankly why censorship is a bad idea.

Especially when anyone with eyes knows why it is being done… and it isn’t for the daisy-filled future (not Carol Vorderman) Rachel Riley would have you believe.

As is the way with all these things, going after Katie Hopkins and George Galloway is an obvious PR stunt. A faux display of moderation, of being reasonable and centrist. ‘We’ll pick one from the right, and one from the left’ (ignore the implied racism in them both being white) for no one ‘reasonable’ will (dare) complain.

What they won’t do is, to use a topical example, go after Martin Shapland who went out of his way to take offence, after going out of his way to pick a fight as to why Sandringham might be poignant to the Queen because her father died there (don’t tell Mr Shapland he has a history degree, you know), and then went out of his way (and it was a long way) to use his race to get Alastair Stewart sacked, (because of his race).

Not that they need to, as being a good boy, who has done nuffin wrong, Mr Shapland has either deleted, or hidden his tweets, in which he endlessly attacked, and dismissed, people on the basis of their race.

And indeed they shouldn’t, for people can now see the Liberal Democrats for what they are by his own words; and indeed the words of those who defend him.

Oh come now, I hear you say, this isn’t just another cock-eyed anti-hate campaign that will inevitably spread more hate than it stops (and no doubt win awards, and make those involved a lot of money). They are simply holding companies to their own rules. They are the good guys.

If you believe that, you are as green as you are cabbage looking.

Ask yourself this… is the correct response to this poem, ‘good another dead white baby:)’?… asking for a friend….