#illRideWithYou
During the Sydney Cafe siege on 15 December I watched Twitter melt down into a morass of self-congratulatory compassion over the #illridewithyou hashtag. In an incredibly short time there were 120,000 tweets from Australians bravely standing up to anti-muslim behaviour by offering to ride with Muslim’s on public transport. News.com.au described it as a twitter movement which would “restore your faith in humanity”. Buzzfeed thought that it was “one of the few positive things to come out of the horrific events in Sydney.” The Sydney Morning Herald was a little more measured, seeing it as a bulwark against the “climate of fear and …