This is ridiculous. They are literally charging someone for posting a piece of SATIRE on twitter.



“A student diversity officer who was caught up in a racism row after allegedly posting ‘kill all white men’ on social media has been summonsed to court to face malicious communications charges.Bahar Mustafa, 28, of Edmonton, North London, a welfare and diversity officer at Goldsmiths University, will appear at Bromley Magistrates’ Court on 5 November, police said.Ms Mustafa will face two charges, one of sending a threatening message between 10 November 2014 and 31 May this year, and one of sending a menacing or offensive message via a public network, between the same dates.She provoked a backlash after posting a message on Facebook asking white people not to attend an event for black and ethnic minority students in April.An student petition calling for her to be removed from her position garnered only 165 signatures, and she was allowed by the student union to keep her job, because it failed to meet the 3% threshold to trigger a referendum that could have dislodged her.”

This is absolutely ridiculous. Writing “kill all white men” as a piece of satire on twitter does not constitue inciting hate or violence, it’s an expression of frustration at an oppressive and dysfunctionaol system. Whether you agree with the exact syntax which she employed isn’t relevant, this is no reason for her to be charged and she shouldn’t be criticised for promoting events excluding white people (which, it’s needless to add, aren’t for them).



(As for her charges regarding a threatening text message, of course that ought to be taken seriously and inquired into - and it would be inappropriate to comment without further details).

This tweet is not a threat to cis white men. As a cis white man, this does not affect me. If I write “kill all white men” I won’t be charged, so claiming that it’s “not about race or gender”, is completely untrue.

#IStandWithBaharMustafa