Here's a quickly googled source for my point, from back closer to the time in 2021. I'll have a look for more from October 2020 but I'm sure there are more if you look:
The actor is being sued by Ru Paul's Drag Race UK star Crystal, Coronation Street actress Nicola Thorp and deputy chair of Stonewall, Simon Blake.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Source?
Because at the time from watching it was much more that he was using it as an obviously baseless remark in response to theirs, I didn't see him mention anything about "the gay = paedophile trope" (whatever that is
) .
Source: The tweets themselves, that he made, at the time, contained no context.
I said he didn’t say anything at the time, only afterwards, you soured something that is….. significantly afterwards.
He didn’t start claiming that he wasn’t serious and defending them as an example of a baseless claim until after he was immediately called out and then copy and pasted another tweet using pedophile as an insult again. At that point, the damage of defamation was done.
I’ve demonstrated this to you quite quickly so you can understand, but it was also demonstrated in court to a much more in depth degree if you would like to look into it more.
Also, it’s a bit odd that someone who is demonstrably a racist, is trying to claim that being called racist is meaningless.
You don’t know what a trope is?
“a significant or
recurrent theme; a
motif.“
Crystal, one of the winners over the racist Fox, explains it in her victory statement.