Wednesday, July 17, 2019

When it comes to Gemma o' Doherty - Ignorance is bliss..



Yet again after coming home from my walk and checking my Twitter via my Laptop my timeline is lit up by people sharing the same snippet of failed Presidential nominee and arch conspiracy quackjob Gemma o' Doherty.
In this case it was of the former Irish Independent journalist standing outside Google HQ qith a handful or so of her 'supporters'.
I really wish people would STOP sharing such clips - Yes what she says in them is often off the wall and/or downright defamatory, but at the end of the day all you are REALLY doing is adding more Oxygen to her publicity tank.

I wonder have these people ever thought how many of their Twitter 'friends' whose association is through a mutual like of Sligo Rovers FC or Ulster Rugby etc are now subscribers to all her social media platforms and are regularly avidly watching her videos whilst swallowing whole all she is saying; Ye may both have a passionate like of Sligo Rovers, but after that your paths could veer off in very different directions?
Most certainly we should not completely ignore the likes of the Shankill native and her brothers and sisters in hatemongering and anywhere they pop up online we should  continue to endeavour to have whatever Youtube Channel or Facebook page etc they have setup shut immediately.

Also many of the people who oppose Gemma and her ilk would have many friends who are foreign nationals or the Irish-born offspring of parent who were born elsewhere - What must they feel when they are exposed to the worst bits of Gemma and other's Alt-righters rants via your timeline?

It is easy to make people well aware of o' Doherty's misdeeds, be it Facebook/Twitter posts, video clips or exposing dodgy characters she maybe associating with WITHOUT sharing any of their Twitter posts or video clips.

So continue to screengrab her written posts and videos to use as evidence so the Social Media companies will shut her down, but instead of tem putting them out into the public domain a simple basic reference to the episode will have the desired effect of ensuring more and more are rightly repulsed by her actions WITHOUT inadvertently turning others into disciples of her keyboard army.
 
After all in this instance - NOT sharing is caring...

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