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Conservative councillor's wife loses appeal over race hate tweet (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] some_guy 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lucy Connolly, from Northampton, was jailed for 31 months in October after calling for "mass deportation now" and urging her followers on X to "set fire" to hotels housing asylum seekers.

Sounds like she was inciting violence. Fuck her all the way to her jail cell.

"My wife has paid a very high price for making a mistake and today the court has shown her no mercy," he added.

He went on to say that "the 284 days of separation" had been "very hard, particularly on our 12-year-old girl".

Let's weaponize our child for sympathy. Herp derp.

"My wife Lucy is a good person and not a racist. As a childminder she took care of small children of African and Asian heritage; they loved Lucy as she loved them."

Oh, that's awesome. But wait… Earlier in the article:

While calling for "mass deportations now", the 41-year-old childminder wrote: "If that makes me racist, so be it."

So which is it? These people are shitbags.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 2 weeks ago

They are just entitled idiots who don't live in the real world. She literally just tried to use the "but I've got black friends" defence.

It's just baseline casual racism combined with the belief that things said online don't really count. I doubt she would dare be that racist in person, but that doesn't mean she isn't racist, it just means she's in denial. Maybe some court mandated counselling would have been in order.