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Laurie PennyVerified account

@PennyRed

Journalist, author, feminist, geek. Nieman Fellow 2015. Contributing Editor, @Newstatesman. Latest book: 'Unspeakable Things', Bloomsbury.
Boston
Joined January 2009
Laurie Penny Verified account ‏@PennyRed · 4h4 hours ago
#istandwithbaharmustafa because the disproportionate response to her behaviour proves it's one rule for white guys, another for the rest.
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  1. @PennyRed I think you probably stand by her because you have double standards. I'm sorry for that
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  2. @PennyRed An Ex Diversity Officer that only believes White people are racist - really - deluded you both are - BOOK OF DIANNE ABBOTT
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    1. @PennyRed It wasn't even a threat. It was an expression of exasperation.
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    2. @RozKaveney I'll remember that the next time I see a racist tweet "Kill all Hispanic women". - Y'all don't understand! It's exasperation!
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    4. @Brazenhood Ah, you're someone who RTs Yiannopolis and doesn't like 'victims'. Blocked.
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    6. @RozKaveney @Brazenhood "ah you're someone who makes more sense that I do and it triggers me. Blocked." Hahaha
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    7. @DjonesBigWork @Brazenhood No, someone who talks unpleasant bollocks for its own sake and with whom I don't care to have conversations.
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    8. @RozKaveney no he called you on your double standard. You're quite obviously dumb to believe that advocating racial slaughter isn't a threat
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    9. @RozKaveney it's really funny how the left wants to censor speech until their idiocy gets them in trouble. Please wake the fuck up
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    10. @RozKaveney and realize free speech applies to everyone. You'd be clapping if a white guy was charged for the same "crime"
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    1. @PennyRed wasn't the most memorable precedent a white guy who 'threatened' to blow up Robin Hood airport because his flight was delayed?
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    3. @mickeyhynes the problem is whether they can claim "kill all white men" is as much a joke as the RH guy :\
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    1. @PennyRed Tweeting and hashtagging "Kill all (insert race) Men/Women" is inciting hate, if you're trying to defend it, please seek help.
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  6. @PennyRed you are becoming the Mo Ansar of feminism
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  7. @PennyRed really, so you support prosecutions only if they are of a particular race or gender then? How can you actually justify that?
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  8. @PennyRed You cannot have this lack of self-awareness, right? Thank you for making my day.
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    1. @PennyRed - the list of those jailed for tweeting shows that it is mostly white men for sexist or racist trolling, so far.
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  10. @PennyRed sorry two wrongs don't make a right. She should have known better.
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    1. @lukeyrada @PennyRed She literally broke the law on top of being a racist cunt. Segregation of any people bar criminals is backward as fuck.
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  12. @PennyRed seems like you're the one calling for two sets of rules.
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  13. @PennyRed Except it isn't.
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  14. #istandwithbaharmustafa and @PennyRed because allowing hateful bigots to out themselves saves us the time of finding out for ourselves.
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  15. @PennyRed She was a diversity officer who held a position of power. It is legitimate that she be held accountable.
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    1. .@PennyRed Have you not noticed? #BaharMustafa is white!
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    3. @PennyRed Just for the record: I don't think she should be prosecuted. Stupidity isn't a crime. #BaharMustafa
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    1. @PennyRed @MikkiL Nobody should ban a group of people because of their skin colour, end of; So should lose her trusted position.
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    2. @DaveWarren7 @MikkiL @PennyRed White people are the most persecuted race these days, I'm not too concerned we always win in the end.... ;)
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  18. @PennyRed It's beyond comprehension that your thoughts can be indulged by a respectable journal. You're an idiot who steaks a living.
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  19. @PennyRed Don't be ridiculous. If a 'white guy' tweeted "kill all black women" they'd (rightly) be arrested and you know it. #BaharMustafa
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  20. @PennyRed nonsense. People have been jailed for less. She gets her day in court to plead her case.
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  21. @PennyRed "disproportionate response"? You haven't cited anything. How is this proof?
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  22. @PennyRed absolute stuff and nonsense
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  23. @PennyRed festering horseshite. Belittles white male victims. You should try doing manual road work to test equality.
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  24. @PennyRed Penny, please go to the doctor asap, I fear you have a serious irony efficiency!!!!
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    1. What on earth are you talking about. "White guys" aren't the ones calling for stricter hate speech laws... @PennyRed #IStandWithBaharMustafa
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    2. @AliRadicali Shit, it aint even disproportionate by Mustafa's standards; according to her, this is what she wanted to happen. @PennyRed
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    4. @AliRadicali BTW @PennyRed narcissistic white women with messiah complexes are beholden to 0 standards, explaining your success as a writer
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    5. @LuckyStrikeMFT @PennyRed Criticism of A woman is "le sogggy knees", after all... Such equality. #SJWLogic #FeminismIsAwful
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    1. @PennyRed #BaharMustafa You are delusional as always. Those of us supporting freedom of speech (unlike you) are supporting her.
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    1. But you keep confusing her actions as an individual vs As an officer of SU. Hats Matter in Law. @PennyRed pic.twitter.com/L11Yd5apdQ
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    1. @PennyRed Disagree that it's disproportionate. Not OK to shout fire in a crowded room. How is it one rule for white guys? Examples?
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    2. @night_error @PennyRed it is ok to shout 'fire' in a crowded room if the room is on fire?
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    3. @panmisthropist @PennyRed Not sure I follow. Are you asking if it's ok to say kill all white men if everyone else is doing so?
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    5. @night_error @PennyRed it's ok to SAY it. It's bad form to DO it. My logic here is it's ok to say anything. Yeah. I'm freaky like that.
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  29. @PennyRed Agreed. People who disagree with her still support her right to Free Speech, while white guys don't have that privilege.
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  30. @PennyRed her gleeful bigotry obviously undermines the greater fight against all discrimination - v. surprised that's not a problem for you.
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  31. @PennyRed *Privileged* Correction 👍
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  32. @PennyRed @waitingirl13 24/7 but not summons or late night knocks on their doors. Transparent bs all the way through
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  33. @PennyRed @waitingirl13 it's always one rule for whites and another for everyone else. You see these guys posting about killing migrants
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  34. @PennyRed I wouldn't prosecute as I believe in free speech. But you reap what you sow Penny. This is what happens when you police thought.
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  35. @PennyRed @MikkiL She should take responsibility for the hateful divisive crap she's spouted.
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  36. @PennyRed I believe in holding people accountable no matter the gender. #cognitivedissonance.
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  37. @PennyRed it'd be less divisive if you merely stood by her right to free speech
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  38. @PennyRed the disproportionate response to threatening all white males with death????
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  39. @PennyRed I wonder what "standing" with her accomplishes? You told us all you are and nothing happened. Bit disappointed for you.
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  40. @PennyRed do you actually #istandwithbaharmustafa or do you just think the response is disproportionate. cos i think she a bit of a dick.
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    1. @lonesaederup: @PennyRed Exactly. Women are told to relax when men make the same threats even though men kill women daily.
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    3. @lonesaederup @PennyRed is that why the majority of such prosecutions are against males (never mind her SJW racial reference bollocks)
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  43. @PennyRed Remember Mary Beard and don't start me off website fracas Penny?
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  44. @PennyRed ... says the champagne socialist who is far more privileged than 99% of all men out there.
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  45. @PennyRed The biggest irony is that Bahar's harshest critics are the ones who are most outraged by her arrest.
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  46. @PennyRed Quite right too. Human race never would've got anywhere without inequality.
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  47. @PennyRed Prove it.
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  48. @PennyRed aww Laurie :'( Here, have a kitten pic.twitter.com/3pnDBSmUw3
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  49. @PennyRed of course you would
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  50. @PennyRed No - you will see that even those of us who despise her (and you) believe in free speech. She should be fired that's all
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  51. @PennyRed stop making it a race/gender thing. It's a free speech thing moron.
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  52. @PennyRed I feel sorry for your father and his father and his father's father.
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  53. @PennyRed You really are a thoroughly unpleasant person, aren't you? I feel truly sorry for you.
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  57. @PennyRed Where was your love of free speech when Liam Stacey got sent to prison? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17515992 … Looks like whites aren't immune.
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  58. @PennyRed Really? How many people have been arrested for threatening to kill @trobinsonnewera and his family?
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  59. @PennyRed point at her, point at her and laugh pic.twitter.com/QWwMH4dRAW
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  60. @PennyRed is it one rule for privileged private school girls too?
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  61. @PennyRed Nope. 99% of her supporters are her critics. Actually, the whole SJW crowd is deafeningly silent on this for the most part.
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  62. @PennyRed As a white guy #IStandWithBaharMustafa and you but I do NOT believe you're correct in this "patriarchal" double standards.
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  63. @PennyRed yes because all white guy's are racist/misognist/bigoted and tweet about killing others. Obviously.
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  64. @PennyRed You're right, there are different rules for white guys. If a "white guy" acted as she did he'd have been booted long ago.
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  65. @PennyRed have you ever been in vienna for a reading? When do you come to vienna think it is necessary
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  66. @PennyRed what a load of victim suffering bollocks
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  68. @PennyRed ...silly girl
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  69. @PennyRed whit diversity officer says "no BEM's can attend event" your saying twitter wldn't blow up and he wouldn't be sacked on the spot?
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  70. @PennyRed Penny I've heard of "parody accounts" but tell me, are you a "parody person"?
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  71. @PennyRed you can stand where you like, she's going down!
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  72. @PennyRed if u adopt this 'we can do things but you can't' in order to address past wrongs when does it end? U selling perpetual pettiness?
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  73. @PennyRed Funny. The anti-SJWs are the ones defending her the most. Free speech is a right. Not being offended is not.
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  74. @PennyRed but it's ok for others to be punished as long as it's not one of your own
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  75. @PennyRed so it's ok to be a bigot as long as you're not a white male.
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  76. @PennyRed #IStandWithBaharMustafa even though she's a complete loon and doesn't believe in freedom of speech herself
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  77. @PennyRed confirms you are racist, racism can come from any section of society. Not ok to support Asian racist.
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  78. @PennyRed sharia in the west.....one rule for Muslims, another rule for the rest
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  79. @PennyRed are you ignorant or just stupid?
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  80. @PennyRed Catchphrase : say what you see . Everyone sees the issue through their own racial/social prism . Speak your mind is what I say .
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  81. @PennyRed Is it right or wrong to encourage prejudice & mass murder on the basis of sex & colour?
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  82. @PennyRed Just what is it with the far-Left and double standards? Someone please kindly explain...
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  83. @PennyRed @hjoneshojo Not because you're a squeaky-voiced little shite?
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    1. @PennyRed #Idon't she's smart enough to know comments were repulsive. Seems like you're the one with double standards - you're a hypocrite.
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    2. @neuropathik The behaviour to her is proportionate. Subsequent examples provided by @pennyred are not good enough
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  85. @PennyRed Did your granny tell you that or are you arithmetically challenged?
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  86. .@PennyRed is it actually possible for you to not talk utter bollocks? O_O
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  87. @PennyRed utter bullshit. But I respect your right to spout it.
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  88. @PennyRed This is like catching an anti-smoker advocate smoking, or a christian evangelist being gay. That's all.
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  89. @PennyRed It's because your moral crusaders clique has been getting away with so much hate speech and now finally one's got comeuppence.
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  90. @PennyRed is this acknowledging your stand isn't based on principles but on: who you like? Or, worse, who's like you?
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  91. @PennyRed It doesn't prove a thing, it's just given you yet another platform to sling your hateful rhetoric out from. You amaze me.
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  92. @PennyRed shut up basic
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  93. @PennyRed if a white man had posted about killing all blacks then he'd,rightly,lose his position & be expelled.You'd happily ring police too
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  94. @PennyRed you do post some nonsense. I don't stand with Bahar Mustafa. She deserves everything she gets. And it's not disproportionate.
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  95. @PennyRed lol, fackin hell love! This is your best worst tweet yet... ha ha ha
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  96. .@PennyRed Exactly, like the male scientist who were a misogynistic shirt and didn't end up in court. White males run the legal system.
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  97. @PennyRed funny use of the word 'proves' there.
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  99. @PennyRed what's your guiding principle here? How are you deciding what's acceptable and what's not?
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  100. @PennyRed If we look at the history of people charged under those laws, what do you think we'll see?
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  101. @PennyRed she got what she deserved. next time you want to make such threats, please consider who's actually listening #istandagainsthate
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