I don’t think we should make out Tories are ‘scum’ by default.
There are many who aren’t, and it is rather prejudiced. However, the current crop of Tory MPs contain all too many grifters, chancers, self-interested, grubby charlatans among them, and it’s not wrong to call out people with negative connotations if you have the evidence to back it up. I don’t think that I can possibly do the same for every Tory, politician or not, in such a broad brush way.
Yes, I agree with all that. I can still understand why people do it though. It’s a bit of petulance borne out of frustration. Not clever and a sweeping generalisation, though I’m sure many who say it don’t actually mean it. I’ve realised over the last week or so, for entirely different reasons, just how much social media brings out the worst in communication. Less so much the ‘keyboard warrior’ stuff and more to do with, the more you’re engaged with it the more inward and internalised issues become. It’s really not healthy. The pandemic exacerbated social media usage and it seems to be worse than ever. Anyway, I digress. Just contextualising the use of broad brush insults and labels, as I see it.
