Thread by @OzKaterji

I have just had a private conversation with Owen Jones over the phone. I spoke to him in detail about the racist statements made by Peter Start (Aka WokeBane), and Jones insisted he was unaware of them.

I will choose to give Owen the benefit of the doubt.

Owen has stated very clearly that he considers Start’s remarks towards me and Gabriel Pogrund to me “absolutely abhorrent” and “completely unacceptable”.

Having been ignored for years while I was trying to flag this issue to him and others, it was reassuring to finally hear that

I don’t expect Owen to be responsible for every account he follows or who follows him, that would be absurd. But I do expect him to respond when clear racism is pointed out, which he has now done.

As far as I’m concerned the matter of Owen’s supposed endorsement of Start’s racism has been dealt with and I have no reason to bring it up again. I am thankful to those that defended me, it meant a lot, and thanks to them this matter has been put to bed.

All I wanted was for people who supported Start to take my experience of being racially abused by him seriously, and that has now happened. I really don’t want to waste another second of my life thinking about this man, so would appreciate if we all went back to ignoring him.

There are now people in Jones' mentions pretending like I am the one that started this, as if I picked a random anonymous account on Twitter one day to start being angry at, rather than him turning up in my mentions racially abusing me from multiple accounts.

At least make your lies believable. Peter Start decided it was acceptable to go around calling a Muslim journalist an al-Qaeda supporter. That has real-life consequences. Own those consequences.

I should just point out, for the racists still on here defending Peter Start's libellous bigoted remarks, Owen Jones has called them "absolutely abhorrent" on the record.