Since when did teenagers become representatives of society?
Ollie Robinson has become an alarming lesson in offense archeology - dredging up tweets adults made a decade ago
9 June 2021 • 12:23pm
In the past few days we have seen several cases of “offence archeology”, in which malicious people dig up things that were said (in these cases on Twitter) many years ago (typically about a decade or more), by people who are now public figures but were teenagers when their Twitter comments were made. The recent cases have been England cricketer Ollie Robinson, another England cricketer, and Green Party parliamentary candidate (and former Rugby League star) Ross Peltier. These are just the latest in a long stream of such incidents both in the UK and the US.
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England debutant Ollie Robinson ashamed after twitter racism storm and could face ban
Debut overshadowed by contents on Twitter account in 2012 and 2013. Plus, why ban for tweets sent years ago by teenager would be too harsh
2 June 2021 • 8:32pm
Ollie Robinson (far left) lines up with his England teammates for a Moment of Unity whilst wearing Anti-Discrimination T-shirts
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England Test debutant Ollie Robinson said that he was “ashamed” and “embarrassed” by a series of historic sexist, racist and Islamophobic Twitter posts which leave him at risk of a ban from the international set-up.
The offensive tweets included: “I wonder if Asian people put smileys like this ¦) #racist”; “My new muslim friend is the bomb. #wheeyyyyy”; “Real n - don’t let the microwave hit 0:00”; and “Wash your fingers for the mingers #cuban”.