A family installed a secret camera in a great-gran’s care home after a “gut instinct” made them believe she was being harmed.
12.05.2024 - 03:59 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The vile racist abuse which Humza Yousaf said he had to defy to become first minister is today exposed by the Sunday Mail.
The SNP politician is relentlessly told to “go home” and referred to in offensive terms like “P**i” and “brown boy”.
And an analysis of social media posts on X shows the level of hate increased in the days before and after his resignation last week.
Some of the posts had been viewed nearly half a million times according to tools which check the impact of posts on X.
Campaigners yesterday called for the bosses of online sites to do more to stop racist posts being allowed on their platforms.
In his final address as first minister last week, 39-year-old Yousaf said he had carried out his work despite the racism he’d faced throughout his life and political career.
And he teared up as he recalled racism he experienced as a child growing up in Scotland and being told at age six to go home.
Glasgow born Yousaf, who is the son of Pakistani parents and who studied politics at the University of Glasgow, said the racist slur “go home” had hurt him because he said he has no other home and never will.
Last night, Yousaf told the Sunday Mail: “Throughout my time in politics I have been subjected to a barrage of racist and Islamaphobic abuse over the years on an almost daily basis, unfortunately, in recent weeks my family has also been targeted.
“While this is personally deeply upsetting, I also worry about our ability to encourage more diversity in public life if being a racial minority in politics means you will automatically become a target for racists and bigots.
“It is clear that social media platforms simply do not take their responsibility to safeguard people from hatred and vile abuse seriously enough. This is
A family installed a secret camera in a great-gran’s care home after a “gut instinct” made them believe she was being harmed.
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