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Laurie PennyVerified account

@PennyRed

Journalist, author, feminist, geek, genderpunk. Contributing Editor, @Newstatesman. Latest book: 'Unspeakable Things', Bloomsbury.
Joined January 2009
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Laurie Penny Verified account ‏@PennyRed · 27 Aug 2014
Some people are using the stories of abused children in Rotherham to condemn individuals they dislike on the left. To me that is abhorrent.
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  1. .@PennyRed Not as abhorrent as defending the abusers. #Rotherham pic.twitter.com/dkINzMguxT
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    1. @PennyRed And yet you still haven't condemned the #Rotherham abusers....why not?
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    1. @PennyRed @pasparakis This is not a left or right issue.This is evil & its a fact the political parties are up to their necks in this filth.
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    2. @GillGarmesh @PennyRed it's a people raping children issue and I'm disgusted that people are blaming anyone but the people who did it
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    4. @pasparakis @GillGarmesh @PennyRed well. Apart from the cops and councillors who were complicit and helped enable abuse.
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    1. @PennyRed 1,400 children probably have a different perspective to you
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    2. .@followneil @Mislu_Kravin @PennyRed Wait you said this unironically Laurie? Wow lack of self awareness is nil.
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    1. @PennyRed @Kelsblells Yes, you'd really like everyone to stop talking about this now wouldn't you? It's the left that facilitated rape jihad
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    2. @Barber1956 @PennyRed what are you accusing us of?
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  6. @PennyRed @pasparakis only cos they knew you'd make it all about yourself, as usual. oh, can you give a 9 yr old an automatic weapon? kthx
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  7. @PennyRed The only people being condemned are those who deserve condemnation. That is not abhorrent, that is human #RotherhamAbuseInquiry
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  8. @PennyRed It was the idiotic,discredited leftist project of multiculturalism that led to this outrage, so the Left deserve criticism for it.
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  9. @PennyRed Feminism: Concerned with rape until non-whites do it
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    1. @PennyRed Using it for anything other than trying to stop it happening any more is abhorrent. Nothing is too low for political pointscoring.
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    3. @petefrasermusic @PennyRed how will u stop it from happening again if people continue 2 b dismissive 4 being afraid of being called racist?
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  11. .@PennyRed we dislike rapists & fuckwits like Penny who mention #Rape of #Rotherham and #Cologne by #Rapefugees #Muslims with zero interest
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  12. @PennyRed What is abhorrent are your continued excuses for the incidents in Germany.
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  13. @PennyRed Why should rapists get a free pass due to their identity? why do you hate women?!
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