“I feel so sad. We begged you to stop amplifying and normalising hatred and racism. But you told us we were 'politically correct' and 'freedom of speech' was more important. The more you gave the far-right a platform, the more powerful they got. We begged you.”

— Osman Faruqi

Source: 14 March 2019 https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/1106419337567428608

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