Why is the very common practice of embedding Tweets a blatant invitation? Is it always an inviation, or just this time?
The original tweet was a bit mental. It's a massive overreaction to something relatively benign that would most likely have never
ever been copycatted. By signal boosting the tweet, The Guardian have brought it to a much wider audience. Inevitably, some of that audience are going to respond with the standard "pull yourself together, woman" tweets and there'll be the usual suspects that take it too far and send her pictures of berries, nazi Pepes and the usual autistic shit you get from professional trolls. All of these tweets will be aggregated and before long, it'll be reported that she received
literally hundreds of hateful messages, when in reality, it'd probably be 90% of bemused, level-headed people disagreeing with her (with varying degrees of sarcasm) and a handful of shitty messages and threats.
Should this happen? No. Would it have happened if the Guardian had at least obfuscated the identity of the mother who posted the tweet? Probably not. Will every reply to that tweet that doesn't agree with the message be aggregated together as "proof" that Trump has caused the world to go to shit and cis white men are literally
murdering minorities with mean tweets? Abso-fucking-lutely.
