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Michelle Marie

 

A black British woman who was chosen to tweet from the @ireland account for a week has been subjected to a barrage of racist abuse, forcing her to take a break from Twitter.

Michelle Marie took over the account – which is curated by a different Twitter user in Ireland each week – on Monday. She introduced herself as a mother, blogger and plus-size model.

Originally from Oxford in England, she wrote she had settled in Ireland and “it has my heart”.

However, just hours after taking over the profile – which is followed by nearly 40,000 people – the abuse began.

Black woman inundated with racist abuse while tweeting for @Ireland (The Guardian)

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170 thoughts on ““It Has My Heart”

  1. Dόn 'The Unstoppable Force' Pídgéόní

    This was just awful to see. And it’s quite sad that I wasn’t surprised. Twitter gives some people licence to awful.

  2. Jimmee

    The abuse was shocking to read, however, most of it was from what seemed like anonymous international twitter accounts. However some of those accounts tweeting abuse were Irish people which is sad to see.

  3. Janet, I ate my avatar

    ah the joys of translating to the other half while visiting the folks little scrotes screaming ” she loves BBC ” Home sweet home

    1. Tony Hall

      What’s not to like about the BBC? We get all of the content and none of the licence fee threats.

  4. Fully Keen

    Out of interest and it probably doesn’t matter, how many of the abusive tweets actually came from Ireland?

    1. 15 cent

      loads. we have cretins in abundance here unfortunately. just check out the Irish Voice facebook page for evidence. A hateful, provocative page which facebook refuse to shut down regardless of people constantly filing complaints about it.

      1. hmmm

        Why should it be censored? There are plenty of things I disagree with, I dont want them censored though

    1. Daisy Chainsaw

      An ugly peice of racist claptrap courtesy of Michael McDowell.

      Repealthe8th and the 27th.

  5. AssPants

    Fabulous looking woman….. fu@k the begrudges and the haters…….

    Keep the tweets going, it will wind them up. Also maybe think about retreating those comments from the haters and name and shame….

    PS….. 15 cent, put a picture of a nice pair of boobs up on “Irish Voice” and it will be shut down in seconds, because a nice pair of breasts is horrifyingly offensive to FaceBook, racism is seems to be cool in FB :)

  6. Tish Mahorey

    Most of the abuse was not from Ireland. Sadly some was though.

    Racism comes in many forms, from the overt racism of street scum to the nod and wink racism of the older generation middle class.

    OK so that’s two forms.

    1. veritas

      Your generalisation about the older middle class is insulting. I for one neither nod or wink to racism unlike supporters of some politicians you have been very vocal in support of.

      1. Neilo

        Did you know that Repeal the 27th is an anagram of “what’s this got to do with the price of turnips”?

    1. forfeckssake

      Let’s not enable them to hide behind that term by using it ourselves. Neo-nazis is a perfectly good term.

    1. Daisy Chainsaw

      And you’re a prime specimen, I suppose? Post your picture for critique

      Put up or shut up.

    1. Daisy Chainsaw

      Back to your MGTOW basement, your mammy has your dinner ready. She’s even pre-cut the meat for you.

  7. Turgenev

    Wasn’t there the same kind of thing previously when an Irish speaker whose mother or father was from… Vietnam? Cambodia? somewhere like that? had the account for a week?

  8. Eamonn Clancy

    Twitter (and FaceBook) is where life’s failures go in an attempt to be re defined as interesting people. It’s the carpet society sweeps its debris under.

      1. rotide

        Broadsheet will always be more interesting than twitter, Information distilled from the morass of crap tweeted if you will.

        1. Dόn 'The Unstoppable Force' Pídgéόní

          LJG beats the work contacts I’ve made on twitter?!

          Look, as with anything it depends what you use it for. Twitter can amazing, I’ve met amazing people through it. Though they really need to do something about the abuse, it’s ridiculous and vicious.

        1. Neilo

          And that place is is brandishing the severed head of the phallocracy over its festering carcass! Who’s with me? I’m nothing if not ideologically malleable. :)

    1. Nigel

      I say, don’t you mean ‘blatant race agitation from racists on twitter,’ old chap? Perhaps you mistyped..

    1. Nigel

      I’m sorry you seem to have given a link to a story which has nothing to do with this one. Another typo, I’m sure.

          1. pedeyw

            I think he’s saying that a story that is easily proved to be true is somehow untrustworthy because a completely different freelance journalist working for the same publication probably fabricated some interviews to which the guardian openly admitted and apologised. The race baiting bit still makes no sense, though.

          2. Sido

            Its the Guardian Nigel FFS. They are leading purveyors of rubbish
            Maybe this racial abuse has something to do with post Brexit hate crimes that have somehow come across on the boat. Who knows?

          3. Nigel

            Sido, I saw this unfold yesterday and last night, so the Guardian is kinda irrelevant to the notion that the story itself is not true. Are you also dismissing the fact that this woman was subjected to racist abuse in the name of attacking the Guardian as well as, in your case, anti-Brexiteers, both of which seem completely irrelevant to what actually happened?

          4. manonfire

            Straight off the bat; fake agitation using a fake story from a fake twitter account, all this is possible and you cannot totally refute it

          5. manonfire

            Thanks Sido, Nigel is concerned as he has a subscrition to the tory rag that is the guardian

          6. Sido

            Nigel, If you have witnessed this, then that is good enough for me, I don’t doubt your word as a gentleman of impeccable character.
            I would however doubt the veracity of the source provided by Bodger at the start of the post. (The Graun)

          7. Nigel

            Possibility is not proof. Your approach suggests that it is not just possible, but that it is probable, though actually I mostly think you were opportunistically having a go at the Guardian with no regard for the racial abuse this woman experienced whatsoever.

          8. Nigel

            mnonfire still cannot get his head around the notion that a claim such as his requires some sort of direct proof, or an actual articulated reason for believing she might not exist, other than vague accusations and insinuations.

          1. manonfire

            Im saying they can and do lie to you, you cannot refute that.. hence i approach this story with caution

          2. pedeyw

            But you can check this one on twitter. It’s right there. The fact that one of their freelancers lied about some stuff has no baring on this story which is by a different journalist and is easily verifiable. Can you explain the race baiting bit please?

          3. Nigel

            Describing the story as ‘blatant race agitation’ is not approaching with caution, it is instantly dismissing it either as false or as provocation even if true. Given that the story occurred on Twitter, a public and open social media platform, the story has not only been reported in multiple venues, but is also almost instantly verifiable to anyone with a computer and an internet connection. ‘Approaching with caution’ would be to check those sources before commenting. What you did was something else, which was to use this story, irregardless of veracity, to attack the Guardian, either deliberately or negligently casting aspersions on this woman in the process. Good job, Blinky.

          4. Nigel

            I’m sorry, are you saying the @Ireland twitter account is fake? Or that the Guardian faketweeted those racist remarks at the @Ireland account as a bit of racial agitation?

          5. pedeyw

            So you’re saying that the Guardian deliberately set up fake twitter accounts to hurl racist abuse at her in order to get a story out of it and /or cause some “race agitation”? Which you still haven’t explained.

          6. manonfire

            “Someone needs to. You’re atrocious at it, frankly”

            Thats a great way to debate your point, you sound frustrated frankly

          7. manonfire

            Im saying twitter accounts can be fake im also saying that the guardian tells lies sometimes, are you refuting what i am stating as my opinion in this post?

          8. Janet, I ate my avatar

            I love when trolls call long standing reasonable commentators trolls…it does nothing for your credibility

          9. Nigel

            I’m asking for the relevance of your attack on the Guardian and what implications you believe pertain in the existence of fake twitter accounts to the racist attacks on the @Ireland account.

          10. manonfire

            I’m asking for the relevance of your attack on the Guardian and what implications you believe pertain in the existence of fake twitter accounts to the racist attacks on the @Ireland account.

            Specifics eh.. your really hot and bothered this time

          11. Nigel

            I’m just idly interested in how much of manonfire is light and how much is heat. Becoming fairly clear now.

          12. manonfire

            When the facts of the story are “racists hurl abuse at person on twitter” then they are easy to verify by going on twitter and looking at it, yes. It’s not that complicated. You don’t need to verify an account to see the abuse.

            your just repeating your earlier post pedey, twitter accounts can be fake and divisive issues on twitter from said twitter accounts can be fake

          13. manonfire

            I’m just IDLY interested in how much of manonfire is light and how much is heat. Becoming fairly clear now.

            As he sits there seething

          14. Nigel

            You said this story was ‘racial agitation,’ so are you definitively saying the story is fake and can you provide direct and verifiable prof of this, or are you going to draw the line at vague comments about the unreliability of the internet something which, while true, it should be pointed out undermines your own credibility exactly as much as it undermines everybody else’s.

          15. manonfire

            haha Nigel you never back up your safe assertions with anything other than your own opinion and you expect more from me why is that?

          16. Nigel

            So you are a person who asserts that they care about the truth, that you are, in fact, somehow uniquely positioned to tell truth from falsehood, but the only thing you have to offer when challenged is irrelevant speculation about my emotional state? Perhaps you should post a YouTube video on the subject, that should clear it up without any recognisable reference to reality.

          17. Nigel

            manonfire if we have all been taken in by a heinous fraud I urge you to save us from darkness and deceit with your no doubt copious credible and verifiable proof and evidence.

          18. Nigel

            You seem to be confused. Nobody doubts the existence of fake twitter accounts. Nobody is arguing that fale twitter accounts do not exist. It is puzzling that you think that anyone’s disagreement with you rests on the premise that fake twitter accounts do not exist, because nobody has said such a thing. Please show us how fake twitter accounts are relevant to this specific story and how you can therefore justify this as ‘racial agitation.’

          19. pedeyw

            “your just repeating your earlier post pedey, twitter accounts can be fake and divisive issues on twitter from said twitter accounts can be fake” They can yes, but that doesn’t actually disprove any of this. You may well believe that the guardian have decided to set up a few fake twitter accounts or that they set up Michelle Marie on the @ireland account but the fact is still that racist abuse was tweeted at black woman or a fake account holder pretending to be a black woman( and either way it’s still racist abuse). Or possibly that some people using fake twitter accounts tweeted racist abuse at a black woman. So the story is still true. You are of course entitled to your opinion. Good luck with that.

          20. manonfire

            “You are of course entitled to your opinion”

            wow i didnt realise that was the case, anymore rights(miranda) i might be able to avail of..?

          21. manonfire

            “manonfire if we have all been taken in by a heinous fraud”

            Your regularly taken this way Nigel remember your assertion that millionaires-who-meddle-in-democracy are all just benign philantropists wh have evryones health at the forefront of their agenda when they seek to coup-de-ta a democratically elected govt

            Yea your full of pearls of wisdom and never ever to be taken for an idiot

          22. pedeyw

            Well seeing as you haven’t made a point of any substance, I can’t see anyone here objecting to you exercising your right to silence.

          23. manonfire

            Nigels above citations of any kind folks

            citations=bad

            according to Nigel all you need to back up an assumption is some big words and a load of smarm

            way-to-go-bro keep on truckin..

          24. pedeyw

            So you’re using an op ed from politically consevative US website aimed at a news site that it incorrectly considers leftist (the BBC) and has nothing to do with the guardian to prove your point? I’m not sure why you’re calling the Guardian a tory rag either, it’s generally considered somewhat leftist. One of you’re earlier links that we’re supposed to trust was to the telegraph which is very much a tory rag.

          25. manonfire

            Keep trending on twitter Nigel its the place to be for serious thinkers like yourself.

            @Ireland what a joke..
            Smear the whole country with one dubious thread/tag title and than have the lead be a person of some divisive leaning or look and run with it, que boneheads en masse..

            My opinion stands;
            SOCIAL ENGINEERING 101

          26. manonfire

            You v legged it off tangent pedey, and if you think the guardian is “lefty” you are severely misguided

          27. Owen

            Hey manonfire. You’ve commented 33 times on this post. Mainly to yourself by the look of it.

            28% of all comment on here are you talking to you.

          28. Sido

            I have to go with manonfire’s general points here Nigel. Whilst I have no idea how Twitter works, as I don’t have any intention of using it. There have been many “high energy” trolls of late. – There’s the let’s have another referendum petition to Westminster with addresses from Vatican City, North Korea and Antarctica. Topped 4M I believe. Then there’s 8channers and 4channers, who are quite capable of targeted pranks.

            The fact of the matter is that there are people who are racist and those who are Anti racist/SJW/PC who will do whatever it takes to get a story rolling. and their are the clowns in the media who will report it. There are many examples of SJW trolling of late, by people who have agendas that are far from honest and wholesome.

            We should be aware of this. – It strikes me as unlikely that Irish twitterers would suddenly become racist. And sadly,a common sense appraisal is the only yardstick that is left to us nowadays.

          29. manonfire

            Its good your counting though Owen as figures do matter and im glad to hear how popular and trendy i am, keep up the sterling work champ

          30. manonfire

            Nigel just let your ego and pride go its ok you can be passionately wrong sometimes, let it go man..

          31. manonfire

            Pedey these rags you and i mention are designed to push you either “left” or “right” when the reality is both really bring you to the exact same place, its like 2 halves of a faeces sandwich, which side do you like?

            I am me, I am free
            I dont like either of them

          32. Nigel

            remember your assertion that millionaires-who-meddle-in-democracy are all just benign philantropists wh have evryones health at the forefront of their agenda when they seek to coup-de-ta a democratically elected govt

            If that’s how you remember it, or how you expect to be believed as remembering it, that explains a lot, and is nicely illustrative of what a nasty little liar you are.

            have the lead be a person of some divisive leaning or look and run with it,

            Being black is divisive? This is rather the crux of it. All this racism was caused by her being black, which means she was engaged in racial agitation just by being black.

            Sido –

            There are many examples of SJW trolling of late, by people who have agendas that are far from honest and wholesome.

            SJWs troll, sure, and have their own toxic internet wastelands, but manonfire is insinuating this was some sort of false flag operation. He has no direct proof of this, but we’re sheeple for not believing him. So this seems to work either as fake racists attacking someone to show how awful racism is, or merely being a black person on Twitter who gets attacked by racists is enough to label you an SJW troll provocateur. I duuno, surely Occam’s Razor applies and the simplest explanation is that a bunch of racists popped out to give the black woman the benefit of their wisdm?

            We should be aware of this. – It strikes me as unlikely that Irish twitterers would suddenly become racist.

            This presupposes that there was any sudden about it, other than their sudden decision to have a go at a black woman guest-hosting a reasonably prominent Twitter account.

          33. manonfire

            No Nigel thats what you said.. it sounds even more foolish on reflection..

            Also if i remember correctly you finished up by labelling me a “scuzzbag” so that pretty much excludes you from lecturing anybody on ethics, in future do try to keep it clean Nigel.. (gentleman..!!) id say chap

            Race on social media is commonly used to promote a fake bone of contention, i and others are aware of that, just because your not aware or just proclaim that your not doesnt mean it doesnt exist.

            It just shows your sheltered and gullible.. ( ” I duuno “)

            “False Flag”
            I never said this but your welcome to assert or insert anything you like, however it is you that looks desperate
            Like i said; keep on truckin..

          34. manonfire

            Nigel resorts to vague snippets of ridicule to try and prop up his increasingly pigeon legged arguement – false flag,sheeple..

            sure whats new..

            (scuzzbag)

          35. Nigel

            Nah, that’s a lie. Lying scuzzbag.
            I’ll take your understanding of what race is on social media to be about equal to your lie about what I said.
            No, you didn’t say False Flag. I did. Those are the words I used to describe what you were saying. Not that complicated. Still, why so coy? Is there no real racism on Twitter? Are there no real people of other races on Twitter? Or are the people of other races on Twitter just there to provoke the hapless racists and distract everyone from whatever’s really going on? Are the people of other races AND the racists fake? What on earth is going on?

          36. manonfire

            Nigel again resorts to vague snippets of ridicule to try and prop up his increasingly pigeon legged arguement

            Your off on tangents, make like pedey and close the door on the way out ive nothing to prove to you

            Fake bone of contention is not a false flag, you know that alas your reasoning has left you and now all your centred on is how to dress up ridicule

            On that basis alone you can be characterised as a charlatan

          37. Nigel

            Oh, sorry, am I confusing conspiracy theory terms of art? In my defence, you’re being remarkably opaque and obtuse and have no credibility whatsoever. Do discourse on the differences between false flag and fake bone of contention particularly as pertains to the particular incident under discussion. We’re FASCINATED.

            I suspect you’re right, though, and you have, indeed, nothing to prove.

          38. manonfire

            What are you arguing now Nigel??
            What did we say about legging it off on tangents.. clearly a vain attempt at trying to save your face

            Give up the goose and get back in your box
            A fake bone of contention is self-explanatory, your attempt to try and prolong this charade is just you trying to get the last word in anyway you can, nobody is fascinated apart from you as your so clearly personally involved,

            Let it go man

          39. Nigel

            So you can’t explain yourself, not even the supposedly self-explanatory things. No there there, really, is there?

          40. pedeyw

            I’ll give you this Manonfire, you’re fascinating in your opaqueness. I have no reason to believe this woman doesn’t exist, she may not (though if she doesn’t someone is really playing the fake life long game), if this is your claim then the proof lies with you. But you say it doesn’t. So no more discussion can really be had.

          41. manonfire

            Pedey i cant verify if the account or person are fake anymore than you can all i can say is that ive seen stuff like this before and approach it with caution, race and religion are commonly used in these phoney bone of contentions, I cant say categorically that the article above is or isnt but its been done before and will be done again..

        1. pedeyw

          You seem to have mixed up two entirely different stories there. This one is all on twitter if you’d care to take a look. It’s quite easy to fact check.

          1. manonfire

            “the story has not only been reported in multiple venues”

            Who spout the same drivel verbatim and whom i have showed in the past will tell lies..

          2. pedeyw

            When the facts of the story are “racists hurl abuse at person on twitter” then they are easy to verify by going on twitter and looking at it, yes. It’s not that complicated. You don’t need to verify an account to see the abuse.

  9. DubLoony

    Have any of the abusive accounts been muted or blocked & reported?
    I used to take twitter feedback a bit more personally.
    But now I’ve decided that life is too short to take any crap from anonymous muppets.
    Says the person with an anonymous acount.

  10. rotide

    I actually like seeing stuff like this because maybe then it will make people realise what a useless POS twitter is. It has absolutely no purpose beyond marketing, self promotion and a platform for drivel and abuse.

    This type of thing while horrible for the woman isn’t surprising in the least Twitter will always suffer from far too much noise drowning out the tiny bit of signal that exists on it

  11. Owen

    31% – and very few, if any to do with the subject. Pal, time to talk a walk. Just let it go.

    We did land on the moon, twitter is real, and there is nobody out to kill you.

      1. manonfire

        too much work sorry

        You made it a point not to go near anything i put up yet you have the neck to talk down upon someone when you screw up

        Warped sense of reality

        1. Nigel

          Your loss. It’s pretty cool.Wonderful allegory for twitter, i thought. Guess which one you are!

  12. some old queen

    I’d love to hear the interview with Michelle on the RTE player except it’s a bit busy right now. RTE at its best.The problem with your reception is your hearing etc.

    Just to recap. A black English lesbian in Mayo has received abuse on Twitter?

  13. Repeal of Tralee

    Twitter EMEA and its VP Mark Little remain remarkably silent. Could not the great and the good of the Irish Twatterati scene and social media – the likes of Darragh Doyle and Co take this up with the mighty Mark?

    https://youtu.be/oTObCKSkaBs

  14. Repeal of Tralee

    Look: Twitter is a sewer. Get over it. Actually, you won’t have to. Nobody wants to advertise in a sewer so pretty soon Twitter will either die or be forced to verify users …

    Just look at the commenters on thejournal.ie who use fake Twitter.com accounts to register and abuse people. So there’s two websites that could go for a start…

    1. some old queen

      I followed through to some of these accounts and white pride is the least of it. They really don’t see the irony in their vague talk of ‘culture’ while hurling offensive abuse at people of colour.

      But the one that bugged me most was the foreigners who felt they had the right to lecture us (Ireland) on whom we should or should not allow into the country. If there was any banning to be done, I wouldn’t let them anywhere near the place.

  15. :-Joe

    Hmmm….. someone has been offended by an experience involving random public replies on a social networking website…

    How strange and unusual that must be..

    I too, can feel my rage building greater by the second…

    :-J

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