JUSTIN DUNN’S ROOM 101 So why do these vile trolls think they can do this?
WHAT’S ANNOYING HIM THIS WEEK?
IT took only seconds.
Moments after last Thursday’s announcement that the Queen was gravely ill, the termites began to skitter out of the woodwork.
Their destination was social media, where you can’t say anything about anyone remotely right-on, hell no, but the rest of us are fair game.
Chief among them was a woman called Uju Anya, who has a blue “confirmed” tick next to her Twitter handle and is thus “recognised”.
As most of the world received the news of our ailing monarch with a feeling of dread, she fished out her mobile and posted this: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. “May her pain be excruciating. “That wretched woman and her bloodthirsty throne have f**ked generations of my ancestors on both sides of the family.
“And she supervised a government that sponsored the genocide my parents and siblings survived. “May she die in agony.” You might think Anya was some typical uppity young leftie student acting up like they all do until they get jobs and grow up. But no. Anya is an associate professor of modern languages at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Twaddle
Unsurprisingly, she specialises in “diversity, equality, and inclusion in instructional methods, curriculum design, and applied linguistics as a social justice practice”.
Anya also teachers “intercultural communication, and service-learning and civic engagement in secondary and university-level language programs”.
In other words, she’s paid to peddle nonsensical twaddle.
And she feels able to tweet vile nonsense, too, knowing that as a woman of colour from the left she can spout any old shit in the knowledge that she’s highly unlikely to be admonished by social media overlords.
All this took place while the Queen was, according to Buckingham Palace, supposedly “comfortable” in Balmoral, while in reality she was dying in bed.
Later, an hour after the Queen was officially declared dead, the former Manchester City footie player Trevor Sinclair decided to upload his own pearl of wisdom to Twitter.
He posted: “Racism was outlawed in England in the 60s & it’s been allowed to thrive so why should black & brown mourn!! #queen.”
At last Talk Sport had the good sense to pull pundit Sinclair off air – hopefully for good, but we’ll see.
His Twitter account was also deactivated. But why do they do this? Why can’t a single thing take place – especially something as huge as the Queen dying – without “progressives” having to pour their vicious bile over it?
It’s as if they get up out of the wrong side of bed every single day, ready and willing to be angry about something or anything.
It’s almost certainly bad enough to lose your mother, grandmother and great grandmother in the first place without an entire planet rubbernecking the sad event.
How much worse to know there are trolls out there – some who even teach youngsters – who hold such views but, worst, feel emboldened to loudly project them.
If Twitter had been in existence when Nelson Mandela died, imagine if something similar had been posted about him by a knuckle-dragging extremist? The hypocrisy is staggering. And it’s all the more staggering because wishing an “excruciating” death on a 96-year-old woman is apparently fine to post publicly. But get someone’s pronoun wrong? Off to the gallows you go…