‘Jarvis gradually blossomed into a stunning and brave trans woman’, she explains. Lisa believes that her character was relatively safe in his early incarnation, but that once he transitioned to female she had jabbed the woke nest once too often. The justification for his banning is unclear, but given that Twitter’s terms of service are deliberately nebulous, this means that the platform is never in the position of having to defend or explain its reasons. Jarvis was extremely popular, amassing 130,000 followers in his short lifespan. It’s the shallow, ego-fuelled, clickbait generation version of social justice.’ It’s not actual ‘social justice’ I’m aiming this at, by the way. We are now six years on from when Godfrey Elfwick was born, and while that account died a death (although still writing for the Spectator USA), the social-justice craze has not abated. I took over the account when he became bored of it, up until the account got yeeted by the Twitter Wrongthink Division. He did it because he found it amusing when people mistook the character for a real person, and in the process he held a mirror up to the bizarre trend of social-justice warriors who had begun to populate social-media platforms. ‘Back in the day – around 2014 – the Godfrey Elfwick account was created by a friend of mine to troll people. I ask Lisa about the background to Jarvis Dupont. “This is for slavery”, I said, and quietly left.’ ‘I walked over to the nearest black family I could see and handed them my half-eaten muffin. When I inherit this land, I will make damn sure I employ only people of colour to maintain it.’ In another thread of tweets he told an anecdote about being suddenly overcome with white guilt in a Pret a Manger. ‘Taking a walk around my family’s estate today’, he tweeted, ‘I am harshly reminded how privileged white people are. An early tweet from Jarvis displayed an image of the opulent Dupont estate that he would one day inherit. Jarvis Dupont started life in 2018 as an upper-class university student who was crippled with white guilt.

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