Yesterday former UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher died in her bed in a room at the Ritz hotel in London, where she had been living for some time. She was 87.
During her 11 years in power, she managed to divide the country, with her supporters proclaiming her as the countries savour, while the rest compared her to Satan himself.
You can see the different reactions across the country from the regional headlines, here.
Personally I think her policies were evil. The underclass that exists today is a direct result of her policies. The fact that you have to bow down to corporations for your services is a result of her privatisation of everything. Her mantra was greed is good, society doesn't exist, and you have to look after number 1.
Personally I won't be shedding any tears now that she's gone. Various city's had impromptu street parties celebrating her demise. I can understand why they did.
But now the point of this post. On Facebook and Twitter, when the news broke, there was the same sort of posts that spring up when a celebrity dies. However tasteless you think that sort of humour is, initially the posts were pretty tame. Then people started defending her, saying she was a poor lonely 87 year old woman and deserved some respect.
The fall out was horrific. People who were friends in real life as well as online, were getting torn into each other.
Today I had a look back over my FB feed. It's like a war zone. Twitter wasn't much better.
I've seen three people comment that their friends list is shorter today than it was yesterday, as they de-friend people who's posts they found objectionable.
Even in death she's causing division.
During her 11 years in power, she managed to divide the country, with her supporters proclaiming her as the countries savour, while the rest compared her to Satan himself.
You can see the different reactions across the country from the regional headlines, here.
Personally I think her policies were evil. The underclass that exists today is a direct result of her policies. The fact that you have to bow down to corporations for your services is a result of her privatisation of everything. Her mantra was greed is good, society doesn't exist, and you have to look after number 1.
Personally I won't be shedding any tears now that she's gone. Various city's had impromptu street parties celebrating her demise. I can understand why they did.
But now the point of this post. On Facebook and Twitter, when the news broke, there was the same sort of posts that spring up when a celebrity dies. However tasteless you think that sort of humour is, initially the posts were pretty tame. Then people started defending her, saying she was a poor lonely 87 year old woman and deserved some respect.
The fall out was horrific. People who were friends in real life as well as online, were getting torn into each other.
Today I had a look back over my FB feed. It's like a war zone. Twitter wasn't much better.
I've seen three people comment that their friends list is shorter today than it was yesterday, as they de-friend people who's posts they found objectionable.
Even in death she's causing division.
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