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If Newcastle Utd fans aren't careful, they could send Steve Bruce down the same path as Caroline Flack.

We all remember Caroline Flack. A celebrity subjected to unprovoked levels of harassment, public criticism, negative press coverage and social-media abuse, which ultimately led to her death by suicide. At the time of her tragic passing, there was (quite rightly) a coming together of people up and down the country who firmly got behind the #BeKind campaign. The basis of this campaign was essentially to remind people of the need to say nothing at all if they have nothing pleasant to say, because you never quite know what somebody is going through. Seems reasonable. At the time of the campaign gathering momentum I was, whilst supportive, sceptical too. It struck me that many of those bearing the #BeKind hashtag and profile picture frames, were only seemingly happy to apply this fairly basic principle to people who they felt were deserving of kindness. Now of course this makes perfectly logical sense in many respects, for example very few on planet earth would argue that the likes of Ro