I waste too much of my life on twitter anyway and so I am more than happy to take a 48-hour break starting at 9 AM on Monday. I urge you all to do the same. Rap artist Wiley – a man with an MBE who I admit to having never heard of – last week posted a stream of vile anti-semitic tweets. His manager was so disgusted that he quit. Folks complained to twitter which responded by removing only some of the tweets and giving Wiley a short ban. Twitter should not be offering a platform for a jew-hater and should not allow his messages of hate to remain.
Twitter is run by folks on the liberal left and many such folks seem to think that anti-semitism is an almost acceptable form of racism. It is not. And so, like many folks, I will be off twitter from 9 AM Monday, even if Rob Terry is arrested in that window of my absence. Who knows, I might even get to like being off twitter for good?