No tweet is worth not responding to

Sometimes, in the melee between two parties, it’s best to sit back and watch the fun. If you have the time, or the predilection for this kind of thing, that is.

The case of environmental activist Greta Thunberg, singer Rihanna, and US vice-president Kamala Harris’ niece, among others, tweeting in support of protesting Indian farmers is not something worth a kerfuffle or fluffing up your pillow.

After all, public personalities, are free to choose — or not choose — their causes and air their views. Cos they are public personalities.


Also, unsurprisingly, there is nothing surprising if governments (such as ours) choose to react, respond to these views. All very kosher. And for many of us, all very entertaining for the short span of a tweetaroo.

But what’s worth dialling up the volume button is the fact that unlike before, when governments (such as ours) chose to ignore aired views of public personalities, today, when every hashtag is tagged and each tweet is twotted out as news, governments (including ours) are no more shy to respond to utterings. Again, all very kosher.

Views earlier thought to be not worthy of comment are now thought worth commenting upon. Thereby proving governments (such as ours) no longer treat public personalities or celebrities as twats. Even if both parties may think the other to be exactly that.