This woman urged people to set hotels on fire

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v5926yeqro

Fuck this shit. This isn't free speech.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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