Elon Musk's abuse of Jess Phillips has pushed real victims into game of political point scoring
Elon Musk's abuse of Jess Phillips has pushed real victims into game of political point scoring
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The treatment of Jess Phillips over recent days tells me all I need to know about the epidemic of misogyny, abuse and violence against women and girls that still plagues our culture. The domestic violence campaigner-turned politician, who has spent her career fighting for victims, has found herself the subject of abuse on an industrial scale over the past week that has put her in danger.
In dark moments, it has left her wondering whether she should give up frontline politics for good and go back to the women's hostels where her work with vulnerable women and girls began. Outspoken and a women's campaigner, Phillips has long been a lightning rod.
But when the world's richest man, who owns a social media platform with 211m followers, starts trolling you as a "rape genocide apologist" - complicit in a what he claims is a cover-up of the most disgusting and sickening abuse - that's a different order of attention, and danger.
This week, the female politician charged with trying to protect the actual victims of these unspeakable crimes became subject to an avalanche of abuse - and threats - herself. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. . It was undoubtedly horrific for Phillips, who tells me she felt physically sick and hunted as the tweets came raining down.
Right-wing accounts on X prompted Elon Musk to find interest in grooming gangs scandal, Sky News analysis finds. Jess Phillips: The inside story. Can Starmer silence Musk?. And, as everyone piled in with their outrage and indignation, where were the voices of the actual victims themselves?.
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