A UNIONIST Twitter troll was told he’d published the “most offensive tweet of the day” after comparing Tories living in Scotland to Jews living in Nazi Germany.
The account posted a picture of Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon standing outside Auschwitz, taken in 2018.
Sturgeon had joined 200 Scottish students on the trip to the concentration camp, which was organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust.
Around one million Jewish people were murdered at the concentration and death camp during the Second World War. Overall, the Holocaust saw six million Jewish men, women and children killed.
During her trip the First Minister described the events that took place at the camp as “one of the darkest periods in human history”.
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At the time of the visit, Unionist Twitter trolls accused the First Minister of only going to the site as a “photo opportunity”.
Last night a troll account shared the image again, writing: “As a Tory in Scotland I feel like a Jew in Nazi Germany.”
Other anti-SNP accounts replied: “I understand” and “My sentiments exactly”.
But there was also widespread fury over the analogy. “You have went too far with that,” another pro-UK account commented.
The original poster replied to criticism saying: “You misrepresent me. It starts with vile hate and abuse but does not end there.”
Twitter users urged the troll to delete the tweet as well as his account.
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Kirstein Rummery, a professor of social policy at the University of Stirling, was disgusted. “You really, really aren't,” she told the Twitter user. “And this wins my 'most offensive tweet of the day' award (trust me there's a lot of competition atm).
“Please stop calling people you disagree with #Nazi unless you are actually on a train on your way to a death camp Yours, #Jewish people everywhere.”
“Idiots. We are surrounded by absolute idiots,” journalist David Leask commented.
Blair McDougall (above), the former head strategist to the Better Together campaign, was also furious with the post. “This is utterly ludicrous and offensive,” he wrote. “It’s also self defeating.
“The SNP are wrong on their own terms. You aren’t a victim [of] genocide FFS.”
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