Discussion: Minnesota Teacher Under Investigation For Kavanaugh Assassination Tweet

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It is fucking dangerous to start calling something this inchoate a crime.

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… use a pseudonym and do it on a liberal blog instead of twitter.

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I agree: Of the varying sins committed in her tweet, the grammatical error is easily the worst.

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She explicitly said, “Who will rid me of this troublesome priest,” or, at least, its direct analogy in this case. If Alex Jones or Donald Trump asked, “Who’s gonna step up and kill Barack Obama,” would you feel the same way?

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I prefer to think of it as fungicide.

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LOL. Couldn’t agree more.

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Let he who is without wishes he must delete before hitting Reply, cast the first stone.

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Yes.

I wouldn’t like it but it’s not a crime. And it shouldn’t be one either.

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I think it is.

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The same ones who stepped forward to defend her with, “Can’t you take a joke? Jeeeez. Lighten up.”

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What a sad and unfortunate thing.

The atmosphere of heated rhetoric, in which no story was doubted, no charge considered too extreme, no deranged fantasy considered unreasonable (Swetnick, Ramirez), is partly responsible for this. The Democratic frenzy of panicked craziness got nuttier and nuttier. The ice-throwing episode, in which a man’s behavior 35 years ago in a bar as a college student was being considered appropriate for evaluating his fitness today, is another example.

For those of you who are still carrying burning coals of hatred in your hearts, you may wish to ask “did my behavior contribute to the sad outcome and reckless tweet of this woman?”

Rational thought is needed in this process. The frenzy of deranged accusations is like the Dionysian women in ancient Greece, in which men were torn apart if they made the slightest disparaging comment.