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Apr 14, 2019

"Too many of us seem only too proud to be seen mounting ugly personal attacks online on those we dislike."

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It's not 'snowflakery' to expect basic civility on social media | Dia Chakravarty

Imagine you’re on a train at the end of a working day.

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Ann Frost Apr 14, 2019

Why is it women who seem to write this type of article? Surely the Telegraph can find better writers than this.

June Jack Apr 14, 2019

It may not seem like it sometimes, but (thankfully) these people are a minority. It's quite good in a way, lets the narcissists and other nasties drop the mask then everyone can see them for what they really are

Ian James Apr 14, 2019

Civility is about policing ‘manners’ not ‘opinions’. Too many ‘woke folk’ try to use the civility argument as a means to shut down ‘opinion’. And largely those doing so have no ‘manners’ to speak of at all.

Beverley Gill Apr 14, 2019

Is the Telegraph finally getting the message?
It’s a hard way to find out who your readers are when you have an article advising people to keep it civil. Instead of lashing out vileness to Remainers your readers are being vile to your Reporter who is Indian and advising people to be civil online.

Anthony Moran Apr 14, 2019

Dia Chakavarty shows a real lack of awareness putting this article in the Telegraph.

It's like having Jimmy Saville tell about stranger dangers.

Christine Claire MacKenzie Apr 14, 2019

True. Especially if your name is Soubry, Lammy, Abbott, McDonnell, Hammond, the list is endless. I personally never use the word snowflake unless it has 'extra special' in front of it and then it's a phrase. I do work hard, each and every single day, to be kind to one person who does not deserve it. One. The rest of the time, it's open season on those who incite division and hate.

Peyman Ako Apr 14, 2019

While David Lammy does it on a Sunday morning on TV

Richard Westmoreland Apr 14, 2019

But this is literally all The Telegraph does these days.

Jon Wilton Apr 14, 2019

Tell that to our MP’s, Perhaps start with David Lammy and Anna Soubry ?

Jeffrey Stevenson Apr 15, 2019

If you give people a platform to use, they will use it. Those who attract the most critical comments are those who seek to have a high profile - if they are basically too stupid for words, like Abbott, they should expect severe criticism.

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