no, no! like, they tried to cancel him in a very brutal way, they were so rude, seriously, just a bunch of bullies, calling him old idiot and stuff like that, it was hard to watch

Oh gosh, okay I'm glad it wasn't that physical but yeah I did vaguely hear about that (I joined just a year ago now) but didn't realize it was that awful. What a damn shame; why are people so needlessly awful? And like, to the kindest man on earth, ugh.

tbh, you didn't lose much, it was hard to take 😅

What were "they" even mad about?

I believe they were upset with how he spoke about the Palestine genocide…they called him a Zionist which I can’t believe 🫩

yeah, that's the gist of it... if you wanna read up, I tried to summarise, but my memory's a bit wonky (it's been two years) bsky.app/profile/hine...

The problem is, it all got collated with sth else, where people were rude to Michael and he blocked them. He didn't block for them calling to him to perform like some monkey and say 'the right words' or else he's a Zionist. I wasn't there, but @imogell.bsky.social tried to explain it to me once.

I think I said the same tbh? It all boiled down to them being hysterically terrible and him doing the thing any sensible human being would do, which only made it all worse and them more aggressive

Yeah. I'm just saying there was something else too. And people who still hate MS for something he did not say nor do, claim he blocked people because he refused to listen and be 'educated', rather than he blocked people because they were complete assholes to him.

Ah yeah The thing a lot of these people overlooked was that Michael's tweets were in support of an MP who had recently been suspended for saying "from the river to the sea", a widely known pro-palestine statement. People just wanted to be angry and twist it— call him out. He is a UNICEF ambassador.

He helps fund aid for families over there. Calling his statements neutral and therefore zionist was very narrow-minded. He blocked people calling for him to educate himself and calling him a grandpa. Aka out of touch... it was a wild time. Haters now latch on to the story of one person... cont