Why waste your social media on Yemen when Goatgate will get you more likes? | Ian Pattison

Online indignation about the hunting of wild goats on Islay will get you further than atrocities in faraway places

Like you, I was indignant when I saw those pictures of hunter Larysa Switlyk posing with the wild goat she had shot on Islay, Scotland. I thought: “Why isn’t she at home threatening Democrats, like normal American psychos?”

Predictably, there was an outbreak of humanity on social media. Trolls, who earlier had been red in tooth and claw as they eviscerated each other over their differing views on Brexit, herded together instinctively to hunt the hunter Larysa. High-profile Scottish voices howled their outrage. Judy Murray, mother of docile house-trained tennis player Andy, described the hunt as “disgraceful”, and called on the Scottish government to stop “similar events” from taking place.

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