Abuse of DUP MP ‘disgraceful and unacceptable’

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1. Carla has plenty of ghastly and abhorrent views for people to focus their critique on.

2. To be fair, she is a cunt

3. I’d feel bad for her if she wasn’t such a horrible person herself

4. Jesus ye dont want to see anyone really getting targeted but her track record is full of hate and blatant sectarianism.

   It’s tough to give many fucks.

5. People regularly make personal comments about Jim Gammon.

   I don’t think the vitriol is gender based

6. Shes horrible enough in how she gets on, her looks are irrelevant.

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8. Good for Michelle with this statement. My only question is would anyone in the DUP do the same for her? I don’t think so.

9. So she’s tried to indirectly blame Michelle O’Neill here, but O’Neill hasn’t taken the bait, and has made Lockhart look like a ln even bigger asshole than before.

10. Whilst it is entirely something that never should happen and the way some people behave online is disgusting and cowardly, it irks me that she doesn’t just go to the police or make her own statement condemning it, instead the choice is used to try and score political points out of the issue publicly.

    I think more does need to be done to combat the vile shite people spew everywhere online. Let people know that their words do damage and hold them accountable.

11. >”If you are really serious about standing up for women, then perhaps they can have a word!”

    What an opening gambit when looking for solidarity. She can do fuck all right.

12. She’s a genuinely evil person, I have no ounce of sympathy for such a hatemongering prick. As much as I hate low hanging fruit insults being used instead of people calling out the genuinely nasty and bigoted views she spouts, the fact is that her views are nationally platformed and get more traction than some social media trolling. (To say nothing of the trolls that she herself emboldens and weaponises to attack other communities…)

13. Carla’s appearance is the least of my concerns about her. She’s just vile

14. Could be an absolute ride, you’re still a cunt Carla

15. Carla Lockhart is an individual so wrapped in hatred and bitterness that without she’d completely fall apart.

    I really do not feel sorry for genuinely evil people who get bullied.

    Everything she does and says, even this statement from her, is designed to be a spiteful dig at the taigs and I for one am just not buying it.

    If she was a decent person or even halfway normal then I would but you simply cannot be as inhumanely vile as she is on a regular basis and not expect pushback.

16. So, a sectarian politician finds it offensive that some people spurred on by counter sectarianism, justified by her sectarianism (in their minds)are sectarian(by her definition, in which only Taigs can be sectarian)?

    This place baffles the mind.

    Maybe if Carla tried smashing all sectarianism instead of constantly leaning into it, it might be possible to see she has a valid point, as it happens she doesn’t.

17. There really is no need to criticise her appearance when her political stances and general morals are more than enough to criticise

18. This is the same Carla Lockhart who was friends on Facebook with Adrian Douglas who was convicted after attempting to kick the door down of a single Catholic female whilst shouting sectarian abuse?

    I don’t recall much condemnation of that incident from her.

19. I witnessed this woman muttering “fenians” after she walked out of a shop in aughnacloy past a team of children gaa players. She’s a disgusting hateful woman. People in glass houses and all that…

20. Has it ever occurred to Carla she only gets abused because she is the most toxic of Northern Ireland politicians? The abuse is nothing to do with how she looks albeit that is how it manifests. She knows that too based on this attempted dig.

21. https://preview.redd.it/m56cdietj1re1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e990d8d11880847ccadfdbf99b57972078aac0b

    Post hateful shit, cry about it when people are mean…

22. thats just the horse calling the kettle black

23. ” Writing on X, and tagging O’Neill, Lockhart said: “Dozens of the accounts that send me abuse on a daily basis are followed by some SF MLA’s, some names crop up more than others, happy to send you the details.”

    as if she wouldnt smear those details here there and everywhere if so,

    “Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster’s Nolan Show on Wednesday . . .It is often not about my politics, in the main it is about my appearance and how I look.”

24. Right, let’s get one thing straight.

    Couldn’t give a monkey’s about whatever political tribe someone belongs to (yawn).

    But the second sexism slithers into view, especially that cheap-shot misogyny aimed at shutting women up? That’s just pathetic.

    Having a proper ding-dong, arguing the toss over actual ideas or policies? Bring it on. That’s grown-up stuff, even if you think the other side’s completely crackers…

    But the snivelling, cowardly tactic of going after a woman – or worse, a girl – based on her hair, her frock, her face?

    That’s straight from the gutter playbook. It’s the refuge of intellectual runts who can’t win an argument fair and square, so they try to emotionally kneecap their target instead.

    And let’s not pretend we don’t know why it’s particularly nasty when aimed at females.

    Society still drums into girls from day dot that their value is basically how fit they look. So, slagging off a woman’s appearance isn’t just bitchy playground nonsense; it’s a deliberate, calculated dig designed to make her feel small, ugly, and worthless. To shut her down and shut her up.

    It’s low, it’s grubby, and frankly, it’s boringly predictable. Utterly vile.

25. Stop using X or twitter lets hurt Mush with not buying his cars ot using his stuff. The platform is full of hatred for other human beings and that is not nice at all.

26. Are we not past the point of giving a fuck what these charlatans think or believe?

    Yes, we shouldn’t discriminate against others or offend them for their appearance, but honestly, fuck all these politicians. I’m sick to the back teeth of them being put on some pedestal, as if they’re above us peasants. If they actually did their job instead of stoking the fires of sectarianism that keep us separated, then maybe the abuse would stop?

    Plus, forgive me for not feeling any sympathy for a member of the DUP, especially Lockhart.

27. Her looks must be about #4327 of things you could criticise her about.

28. It’s wrong that she’s abused for her appearance, she can’t help looking like that, it’s her personality that’s the real issue and the shit that falls out of her mouth, as she can help that, but she chooses not too so her personality is fair game.

29. Carla was very vocal in her support for Dennis Hutchings, a British soldier who murdered John Pat Cunningham; an unarmed man with learning difficulties who Hutchings shot in the back. It is a matter of recorded fact that Hutchings shot the man, yet Carla happily appeared in photographs with him smiling.

    It would seem that Carla views the lives of Catholics in NI as lesser, or not deserving of justice. She’s also very vocal about “Israel’s right to defend itself”. In a lot of ways she’s not unlike her DUP predeccessors who were vocal supporters of South African Apartheid and Rhodesian apartheid. Able to hide in plain sight thanks to the BBC and British Government’s enabling of said regimes.

    Edit: Also “Abuse of DUP MP ‘disgraceful and unacceptable”- I don’t really feel it’s worth the time investigating but I sincerely doubt there was an equivalent BBC headline along the lines of “DUP support for British Army Murder ‘disgraceful and unacceptable”.

    “Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster’s Nolan Show on Wednesday” I’m sure Nolan thoroughly pushed back and questioned whether Lockhart had ever criticised online abuse of M o’N, such as when her DUP party colleague compared her to a dog.

30. No need to comment on how the outside of her looks. Plenty of ugliness inside her to be talking about.

31. Maybe … just Maybe Carla … you could just for once stop being a hate filled sectarian cunt .. maybe people would stop being mean to you … just a thought

32. What sort of ‘abuse’ is this? Any examples?
    Has it been shared with the police if it’s serious? If not why not – and why has it been used to try to score cheap political points?

33. I always assumed her looks were due to some medical condition. No need to be targeting her for her appearance, takes away from legitimate criticism of her words and actions.

34. It really doesn’t matter what her shortcomings or political views are. Misogyny needs called out and this place is full of it. If it was a male politician expressing the same views, there wouldn’t be anywhere near the same level of abuse.

35. Lockhart is probably the most horrible, hateful, shit-stirring individual to appear on the political scene since the Good Friday Agreement. There are others around whose stock-in-trade is bitterness and sectarian venom, but they mostly don’t have the overt or covert clout this harridan has.

    If daily online ‘abuse’ drives this toxic harpy out of public life then crack on I say.

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