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[5thelement]

1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

To be fair to Lucy Connolly, she WAS a victim.  What she said was horrible and wrong, but 2.5 years in prison!  Whether she was a victim of poor legal advice (her barrister advised her to plead guilty) of politically motivated state over-reach or both is a matter of opinion. (Compare the similar case of Ricky Jones who pleaded not guilty and got off scott free).

She was a victim if her own effing stupidity and was convicted for breaking the law, inciting racial hatred by encouraging people to burn down hotels housing migrants, she is not the victim, although she is playing the victim card now all right, and she did 10 months in total. 

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[Squaredy]

12 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

She was a victim if her own effing stupidity and was convicted for breaking the law, inciting racial hatred by encouraging people to burn down hotels housing migrants, she is not the victim, although she is playing the victim card now all right, and she did 10 months in total. 

And am I to assume you are OK with Ricky Jones who was a public figure not even getting a reprimand?

[5thelement]

26 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

And am I to assume you are OK with Ricky Jones who was a public figure not even getting a reprimand?

You assume wrong, and your whataboutery  doesn’t make her any less guilty either. 

[Steven P]

40 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

And am I to assume you are OK with Ricky Jones who was a public figure not even getting a reprimand?

 

Thought he had gone to court? But the law has to be fair and even.

[Squaredy]

32 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

Thought he had gone to court? But the law has to be fair and even.

He went to court, but he pleaded not guilty, so it went before a jury.  The jury quickly decided he was not guilty.  The words he used were not in doubt, but the jury clearly accepted he wasn’t actually suggesting anyone slit anyone’s throat, even though that is what he said.  Just like Lucy Connolly it should never have ended up in court.

[Squaredy]

47 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

You assume wrong, and your whataboutery  doesn’t make her any less guilty either. 

She was certainly guilty of saying some vile stuff on social media.  In truth probably no worse than a million things said by UK citizens on the internet every day.

[5thelement]

32 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

She was certainly guilty of saying some vile stuff on social media.  In truth probably no worse than a million things said by UK citizens on the internet every day.

Yet more whataboutery.

She was found guilty of a hate crime, encouraging racial hatred on social media, after reacting to right wing populist bullshit that turned out to be incorrect, all this on the day that the children where killed in Southport, play stupid games, win stupid prizes, I have zero sympathy for her. 
She is being held up as the darling victim for the right wing populist press, and you have clearly also got her in your wank bank. 

[Squaredy]

23 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

Yet more whataboutery.

She was found guilty of a hate crime, encouraging racial hatred on social media, after reacting to right wing populist bullshit that turned out to be incorrect, all this on the day that the children where killed in Southport, play stupid games, win stupid prizes, I have zero sympathy for her. 
She is being held up as the darling victim for the right wing populist press, and you have clearly also got her in your wank bank. 

No, I just recognise disparity in justice when I see it.