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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
If you are going to jail someone for incitement in text form ie X then imo Joe Brand if she did say something about throwing acid on him is equally as guilty of incitement even if it was a joke and as she has more of a following than Lucy Connolly she is even more guilty imo . Hate is hate throwing in race should not make it any worse an offense it is unbalanced
If some white moron decides to beat me to death I can rest in peace easy knowing its not as bad as someone from a different race doing it
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Brand was clearly joking, though. It would be impossible to miss from the full context.
But I also think Connolly fell short of needing a conviction, albeit it was a horrible tweet.
I am not a free speech absolutist. I think if someone is advocating violence against someone seriously, they should be arrested. Someone at the far-right march said that of Starmer, and I don't know why he wasn't arrested for advocating violence against a politican.