Tanya Sweeney: Dredging up old tweets from the past is pointless. Opinions change, shift and evolve – and that’s OK

'I’m not sure how helpful it is to hold people to account for prejudices or opinions they had in an entirely different culture.' Stock Image Are there two more annoying words to be found on social media than, ‘This You?’ The ‘This You?’ tweet is often deployed as when someone else has tweeted or posted one opinion, then voiced another opinion, way after the fact. There’s a degree of excavation involved in finding two posts from one person that contradict each other, but find them the This You brigade does.

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