No surprises that Wes Streeting, who took away trans people’s right to healthcare, is siding with the guy who says of trans women “punch him in the balls” if one dares use the toilet with a W on the door. I’m not even trans and I can see straight through this twat. He really needs to take his history degree and get out of the health secretary role.
Whenever someone tried to do that to me, I took it very seriously indeed, because it wasn’t all that impractical. I’d go to great lengths to avoid a punch or kick to the plums.
I’d say a specific and actionable threat should be a prosecutable offence. I suppose it’s questionable if Linehan’s remark was specific, though it was certainly hate speech. Connolly’s tweet advocating burning down a hostel containing asylum-seekers while a hostile crowd was outside, on the other hand, was both specific and actionable. There should be a custodial sentence for that.