Have you considered Diane Abbot may attract abuse (non racial, simply 'people be...

yakshaving_jgt · on Dec 27, 2017

I couldn't upvote this enough. It's such a gross diversionary leftist tactic to discard legitimate criticism as prejudicial bigotry.

So, Ms Abbott receives 40% of all online abuse directed at MPs. How many instances of abuse is that? Is it 300,000? Or is it 80 million?

Joeboy · on Dec 27, 2017

I haven't read it but the methodology of the study involved is available here:

Seems to be based on sentiment analysis of about 900k tweets. From skimming:

> Five percent of all tweets mentioning Diane Abbott, @HackneyAbbott, are classified as abusive (8121 out of 140057).

walshemj · on Dec 27, 2017

as opposed to the current Front Bench