Tommy Robinson and his Hate Tweets

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• How is any of this a hate crime? You may think they are rude, but not a crime.

  • Malicious communications / inciting racial hatred. It’s any number of offences.

  • prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
    preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

    He is doing all in the definition, and you still think hes not racist?
    Why are you so ignorant, were you brought up like that?

    • Islam isn't a race. Just like dipshit isn't a race.

      • Hi Tim.

        The first important thing to note is that whether Tommy's comments here are 'racist' or simply 'hateful towards a large group of people with no adequate cause, based on stereotypes' is somewhat irrelevant, as the content is equally as vile, stupid, and dangerous.

        The second important thing to be aware of is that just because Tommy never criticises 'blacks' or 'browns', but instead people from certain countries in the Middle East and people of a certain religion, this doesn't mean that he isn't racist or that the tweets aren't racist.
        There's a recognized political technique called 'dog-whistling' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics) which, true to its name, utilises the ability to appear non-racist in order to hide racist sentiments. For example, someone who hates non-whites might not talk about a 'black takeover' but rather the 'destruction of western civilization' or, as is the case here, use Islam as a scapegoat to make very obviously racially-charged comment. Lee Atwater, a Republican strategist in the '80s, recognised this.

        He said that: 'You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*gger, n*gger, n*gger." By 1968, you can't say "n*gger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*gger, n*gger."'

        Anyway, I hope my point has been clearly made - a lack of obvious racial hatred doesn't mean someone, or something, can't be racist.

        • Hatred of people based on their religion is racism.

    • Where in this article did he state that his religion is superior? How is this not based on reason? He's not racist because he hasn't claimed his race to be supeior. In addition, Islam is not a race, it's a religion. All he has done so far is show the rhetoric of islam and its believers. Are you sure that you are not ignorant, or have you been influenced by misleading information?

      • We make it pretty clear with the screen shots that Robinson is a racist.

        Lisa

        • He is not a racist end of

        • He's on camera calling a taxi driver the P word. He's as racist as they come.

      • Islam being a race isn’t the issue. That isn’t the racist bit. The bit where he says P*** almost certainly is.

        There’s no reason to this either. He hates a religion and wants rid of it. That isn’t up to him, he isn’t important enough to decide who gets to stay and who gets to go. Especially if that decision is based upon something as trivial as what deity somebody kneels to.

      • He clearly judges the worth of a person by their racial looks (hook nose reference) and colour of skin.
        Racist in my book. Islamophobic definitely, both illegal, and he will assume any Middle Eastern look person is a Muslim.

      • He's only showing a minority of Muslims in that perspective, not all Muslims are extremists, again a MINORITY! But that won't fuel the propaganda

        • I refer you to the video he where he makes it very clear he considers all Muslims a threat. (If you need a link to it email roanna@resistinghate.org)

      • At last. A sensible comment in this snowflake toilet paper.

    • are people actually so stupid and misinformed they think islam is actually a race? i suspect this is the case.

      • Educate yourself. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-considine/muslims-are-not-a-race_b_8591660.html

      • I suspect (actually know) that you're just splitting hairs, Fred (note that proper nouns start with a capital letter, you uneducated moron). He's still a proven racist and has no place anywhere near impressionable children. Or child like twits like you.

        • It would appear that others arent allowed to call people names. But you are. Is it cos youre superior ?

  • Exactly. However the people who are in control of the narrative misinform society, regardless of political views. In the media today, wheather your on the right or the left, you will always show some of your biases.

  • Are you merely stupid or the first brain transplant donor? If the latter and I need a replacement at least I can count on yours. I hate having to take stuff that's been used.

  • He didn't say they were a crime, you dolt.

  • Yes rude and offensive but not racist or hate crime So I’ll google again. Examples of Tommy Robinson racist comments As Muslims or not a race ? Sectarian yes as he is against a religion but not racist ??

  • Robinson is the biggest Hypocrite bar none. He holds the bible up yet does he not realise that Mohammed copied most of the Koran from it?, so by believing in the Bible he is also believing in the Koran?!, He frothed at the mouth about grooming, rapes sexual assaults etc?, yet not so long ago he converted to Catholicism. Now this is the biggest load of hypocrisy of them all!, How many Choirboys , bell ringers, young clerks in the Vatican have Catholic Priests, Cardinals, etc have been sexually molested , raped, ?, this has been happening for centuries and centuries !!!. He needs to get his distorted facts straight, but he cannot do that he is so obsessed with his hatred . If this so called man had been around during WW2 he would have been strung up or put against a wall for treason, to think that my parents and millions of other men and women fought against Hitler's extreme far right policies and beliefs only for other extreme racialists to appear again spouting the same disgusting vitriol is an absolute complete and scandalous situation. Fortunately sane and educated people govern this planet and will make sure that this racial hatred will never have enough power to make any difference whatsoever. Oh and if Robinson continues to publish his racial hatred propaganda he needs to get back to Remedial school and learn how to read and write properly, he's a bigoted uneducated piece of Shite.

  • U just look intelligent

• Malicious communications / inciting racial hatred. It’s any number of offences.

• Can you provide the references to where you obtained these screenshots please or the originals?

  • These are undoctored screenshots of the originals.

    • Are we to take your word on these not being doctored? Without proof these are the originals, can we authenticate these with a source reference please?

      • You are entitled to believe or not believe as you see fit. However a Google search will yield the source of the tweets if you are interested. Type "Tommy Robinson hate tweets" into a search under Google Images and then you can access the originals individually and cross reference the source material. I am confident that the source of every single one of our tweets can be verified and that all are original but I also agree it is important to check facts for yourself before believing them. So go ahead and do the research.

        • Most people who have followed Tommy Robinson for years know which of those tweets are real and which are fake. Most are photoshopped or created using the fake twitter creation tools available at the time (and now http://simitator.com/generator/twitter) . You know this, as even back then, Twitter would have banned him for them. They didn’t. They banned him for quoting statistics directly from the Quilliam report.

          The ‘fit for a muslim’ type of tweets are real. The only problem is the girl, Aisianish, was 26 at the time, not 15 as she claimed.

      • You can not see the originals as he was removed from twitter for inciting hatred!!! Do you need anymore proof?

        • Hatred or not, he should be taken off a platform that supposedly defends free speech. People have free will of saying what they want to say. People ALSO have free will to dismay his statements.

        • Hate speech isn't free speech though is it. Hate speech leads to radicalisation, to violence to abuse. How is that free?

          Lisa

      • Reference: http://www.Twitter.com

• Has the word hate changed its meaning recently? Because most of these tweets contain the truth. But I know, the truth is offensive to bloody idiots.

  • Which of the hate tweets specifically do you feel is Yaxley Lennon 'telling the truth'?

    • Hi Roanna. While these tweets aren't nice, I have to point out that Islam is an ideology, not a race.

      Repackaging objection to an ideology as racism is highly dishonest and a symptom of a wider left wing hypocrisy.

      Islam is an official religion in countries as racially varied as Nigeria, Dubai, Turkey and Indonesia.

      So which race is being unfairly prejudiced by anti-Islamic rhetoric?

      Is it racist when, for example, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somalian) or Maajid Nawaz (British Pakistani) criticise Islam?

      • Agree Islam is not a race but look closely at the tweets, a lot of them are nothing to do with Islam and are just pure racism.

        • When you’re forced to debate the nuances of a hate preacher who is funded by right wing parties, it’s time to ignore them. Are his comments addressed at all 1.5 billion Muslims? Yes. Are his comments hate filled? Yes. Is he a violent convicted criminal? Yes. Is he a violent misogynist? Yes. Did he attack a police officer? Yes.

    • googled ,like you said.
      nothing.
      fake invertabrate illiterate.

      • Google Tommy Robinson tweets, go to image search and you will see all the tweets of his racism.

      • Arnold Peterson, what do you know about him assaulting a police officer?

  • Funny how it's not the truth but opinion.
    Funny how idiots don't know they're idiots yet they call people idiots.

• I'm afraid all you are doing is alleging these are true and unaltered tweets without presenting any proof. Unless you are prepared to do this your claims are unfounded. You do not offer anything in supportive proof indeed you simply refer people to an open ended and some what complex search of the internet. That's not really good enough and proves nothing, detail all your sources.

  • These are direct screenshots from Twitter.

• Yaxley-Lennon has been making racist comments for years. Why are people suddenly now trying to pretend he hasn't done that?

• The fact that he could have used The bible instead of the Qur'an shows Tommy's xenophobia - which goes against everything Great Britain stands for.
  Anti idiocy is not racism.
  Get rid of the idiots, keep the good people.

  • Hellwyck 'Get rid of the idiots, keep the good people', isn't this inciting genocide of a particular group of people? Sounds very similar to a section of a philosophy by many just 70-80 years ago...called Nazism!

  • No-one cares about the Bible as it's not taken so literally like the Quran. where do you see Christians fighting for rights to marry prepubescent kids or stockpiling weapons in churches? Our focus should be on Islam as Islam is a threat.

    • There are many examples of all religions being abused by an extremist hardcore. Christianity is most certainly among them.

    • You've just offended about 2 billion people.

• Hi, I'm not surprised by a lot of the tweets you have highlighted and they are thoroughly distasteful within polite society.

  I however must object to to the assertion Tommy Robinson is racist: there is nothing racist about these tweets - the very worst messages you could find published by Tommy Robinson.

  Arguably they may show him to be xenophobic, childish, rude etc. but certainly not racist.

  Fearing Islam and it's growth in this country is not irrational if you know history and the understand the attitude some Muslims have as a consequence of their belief.

  Also it must be noted that Tommy Robinson is working class. I presume that you are middle class and therefore it's not surprising that you find him to be vulgar and rude. While tommy should be held to the same high standard as you or I and everyone else, i think it is disingenuous and/or ignorant not to take his background and the culture in which he grew up into account when reading these tweets.

  I would like to shout out to all progressive Muslims resisting the extreme right wing Islamist ideology. You are the ones taking the greatest risk in standing up for what you believe and for the future of your religion.

  I would also like to publicly condemn all those who stay silent on the abuse of women and girls occurring in some Muslim communities here in Britain and abroad; we can see through you and understand what you really are, ignorant virtue signalling hypocrites.

  Max

• I do notice most of the tweets are 5-6 years old. Now i'm not defending Tommy by any means, but he has certainly toned down his politics and public persona somewhat. He left the EDL as it was infiltrated by Neo Nazis, so i do think he's certainly not as extreme as he is painted by articles such as this. You can argue all you like if it's genuine or not but people can and have the right to change. The populist nationalist movement is gathering speed, and it's not the future i want, so the best way to tackle it is by challenging the issues they raise not the people raising them, it only devalues yourself and degenerates discussions into a barrage of insults.

• I like how it says "building bridges" at the top of this article.