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.
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.
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?
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
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.