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This is a link post Racist scumbag goes to jail
Couldn't happen to a more deserving person.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 20:37, Reply)
This is a normal post I saw him nicknamed
Stephen Yakety-Sax-Lennon, and have since been unable to read his name any other way.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 21:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Sign the petition!
How he's fallen since 2-4-6-8 motorway
www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-free-tommy-robinson
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 21:13, Reply)
This is a normal post 0 have signed. #sad
first they came for the racist gobshite no-marks fucking up the justice system, and I said nothing...
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 21:33, Reply)
This is a normal post 486,328 have signed
and rising at several per second.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 21:46, Reply)
This is a normal post I hope they all have UK postcodes
was slightly confused by the translations there, I mean why would the EDL target people who can't fucking read English or indeed are aware of google translate?
edit: ah. NoScript strike again. I'm pretty sure it's more fucking trouble than it's worth
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 21:58, Reply)
This is a normal post That's a lot of thick cunts

(, Tue 29 May 2018, 22:06, Reply)
This is a normal post ...putting contact details into a website to confirm they're mouth-breathers.

(, Tue 29 May 2018, 22:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh man, this is gonna go even better than Nick 'Santa' Griffin's Naughty List, isn't it?

(, Tue 29 May 2018, 23:38, Reply)
This is a normal post I dunno man
Shaun Ashton
16 seconds ago
"Because this fecking government is discusting people need to know about these discusting filthy paedophiles"
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 10:22, Reply)
This is a normal post My favourite comment so far is one that
says we should free Tommy Morrison.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 12:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Does anyone else feel slightly guilty reading the comments
purely for a gawp at idiots?

It feels a bit Bedlam.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 22:36, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm glad someone sed that.
Although lots of people don't progress much further than primary school and the rest of us get to clean up the mess.
So not very guilty really.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 13:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Yep, the Quilliam Foundation sorted him *right* out
Good work, Maajid.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 23:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Not Roseanne?
Disappoint.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 21:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Not any more.

(, Tue 29 May 2018, 22:29, Reply)
This is a normal post What did he actually do, and precisely how was it illegal in this case?
The reporting of the details seems to be extremely thin.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 11:18, Reply)
This is a normal post This explains the legal aspects -
thesecretbarrister.com/2018/05/25/what-has-happened-to-poor-tommy-robinson/
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 12:16, Reply)
This is a normal post That doesn't appear to be a particularly impartial description of facts.
But it certainly contains more information than every major news outlet has. So thanks.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 12:23, Reply)
This is a normal post In what way is it partial?

(, Wed 30 May 2018, 13:24, Reply)
This is a normal post Well,
if one is directly branding a guy's supporters as knuckledraggers, and then dismissing people with valid concerns as "ye of little brain" (, and a bunch of other similar things) then I'd say one has something of a bias.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 14:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Not really.
S/he's being maybe a little blunt in her/ his characterisation of TR's fans, but it doesn't follow from that that there's anything misleading in the analysis. And absent that, it's hard to substantiate a claim that there's bias or partiality.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 15:30, Reply)
This is a normal post OK, pretend like it isn't biased then, if it pleases you to do so.
Makes no real difference to me.

However, you should probably note that a number of claims are just assumed to be true, specifically that the guy is racist (which very well may be the case), and a cult leader, without provision of evidence. Also certain turns of phrase are employed which effectively amount to straw men, such as referring to the guy as Tommy The Brave, which is not a title that I think anyone has ever bestowed upon this guy.

Ultimately while there are some clear and unchallengable facts contained within, the entire tone of the article is clearly snarky and hostile, and there's nothing wrong with that, but it's pretty blinkered to not see the inherent bias in it.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 15:41, Reply)
This is a normal post
Hark! At the middle class scribes sniffing at the Brylcreamed Spiv. (I know I am..)
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 18:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Quite wrong
I don't like the guy but jailing someone for 13 months for being outside a court and trying to gag the media is something that you'd expect of a police state, not the UK.
The ban on media coverage of the case was both disturbing and comical. It seems to have taken several days for the judge to be brought up to speed with regards to the existence of the internet, and how he doesn't control it, before the ban was lifted.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 21:10, Reply)