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Things like this don't just "come to light".

They do, though. Twitter is full of "offence archaeologists" who'll dig up dodgy old tweets at the push of a button. All you have to do is use the search function, type the person's username along with whatever word you want to find ("Muslim", "retard", "Asian", "girl" etc) and it'll give you every tweet that person has sent containing the word. Pick out the offensive ones, retweet them, watch them go viral a full decade after they were posted. While some of it is done by self-proclaimed activists, I suspect a fair few tabloid hacks are in on it too; it allows them to be pious and earn a payday whilst engaging in the same old "build 'em up, knock 'em down" behaviour that the red-tops have always thrived on.

The Culture Secretary has at least voiced what most of us were thinking.