To be fair, at least she is admitting it was an “angry tweet”.
Weird how so many seek to portray her as
#victim of a
#MiscarriageOfJustice, yet almost every comment she posts (including before her trial) proves the opposite.
🚨🇬🇧 Look, Lucy Connolly is not the brightest button, so let's help her understand why she went to prison for her tweet, and why Bushra will not go to prison for her's.
Bushra Shaikh is not saying: “Go and burn white people’s houses down.”
She is making a sarcastic point about the racist double standard at the heart of these riots.
When a Muslim, Black, brown, or migrant man commits a crime, the far-right does not just blame the individual. They blame the whole community. They march on mosques. They attack hotels. They threaten families. They burn infrastructure. They turn one person’s alleged crime into a licence for collective punishment.
When a white man commits a crime, nobody asks whether we should burn down white neighbourhoods, attack white families, or terrorise random white people in retaliation.
Why?
Because most of us understand the basic moral principle here: individuals are responsible for their own crimes. Communities are not collectively guilty because of the race, religion, or immigration status of an offender.
That is Bushra’s point.
Lucy Connolly’s tweet was different.
She did not ask a sarcastic question exposing the absurdity of collective punishment. She targeted migrant hotels - the exact infrastructure already being demonised by the far-right - and wrote: “Set fire to all the fvcking hotels full of the bastards for all I care.”
And then mobs did exactly that.
That is not a clever point about hypocrisy. That is not anti-racism. That is not “free speech absolutism.”
It is language directed at a vulnerable out-group, in a volatile real-world context, approving or encouraging the destruction of the places they were living.
Bushra’s post says: “Why don’t you apply your own logic when the offender is white?”
Lucy’s post said: “Burn down the hotels full of migrants.”
If you can’t see the difference, I can't help you.