Hypocrisy In Greg Elliot's Tweets
I took some time to read some of Greg Elliott’s tweets. Let me say that Elliot is a vulgar man, and I find his commentary generally tasteless and crude, but nothing he has tweeted amounts to anything more offensive than cussing and mild misogyny. Moreover, the accusations against Elliot are of online harassment, but since when did criticizing political figures on a public account amount to harassment? To this mountain of debauchery, we can add hypocrisy, for Guthrie had continued all the while to criticize Elliot on her own anonymous Twitter profile during the whole dispute.
The above shows an example of Elliot’s humour as he tweets a play-on-words rebuttal to one of the woman’s twitter username (@ladysnarksalot)
I have no doubt that you will see this for the blatant abuse of our justice system that it is and as well as a terribly dangerous attack on our freedom to express ourselves politically online. It seems that public figures can attempt to and even destroy the lives and careers of people who criticize them, and then go to the courts to accuse these critics of bullying. I believe they deserve to have their tyrannical behavior called out for what it is. Yes, I believe that bullies should be stood up to and brought to justice but I also believe that if …show more content…
She asked him indirectly over twitter, “Do you punch women in the face IRL (in real life) or just on the Internet?” and asked her Twitter followers to retweet the whole shebang to gain more attention. And in an attempt to make herself feel better about his negative tweets towards her she used her hoard of followers to destroy his life and try to chase him off the internet for good. She even tweeted some of his prospective employers and gave the local newspaper a link to a story about the game, popularizing the twitter spat and shaming
The above shows an example of Elliot’s humour as he tweets a play-on-words rebuttal to one of the woman’s twitter username (@ladysnarksalot)
I have no doubt that you will see this for the blatant abuse of our justice system that it is and as well as a terribly dangerous attack on our freedom to express ourselves politically online. It seems that public figures can attempt to and even destroy the lives and careers of people who criticize them, and then go to the courts to accuse these critics of bullying. I believe they deserve to have their tyrannical behavior called out for what it is. Yes, I believe that bullies should be stood up to and brought to justice but I also believe that if …show more content…
She asked him indirectly over twitter, “Do you punch women in the face IRL (in real life) or just on the Internet?” and asked her Twitter followers to retweet the whole shebang to gain more attention. And in an attempt to make herself feel better about his negative tweets towards her she used her hoard of followers to destroy his life and try to chase him off the internet for good. She even tweeted some of his prospective employers and gave the local newspaper a link to a story about the game, popularizing the twitter spat and shaming