While Hillary and her liberal media are sticking to the embarrassingly-exposed-after-San-Jose narrative that it is Donald Trump that is inciting riots; none other than entirely unbiased and independent media organization Vox’s “deputy first person editor” Emmet Rensin dropped a Twitter bomb this week that he is likely to regret greatly. Rensin’s advice is simple: “If trump comes to your town, start a riot.” Rensin later qualified his statement that, as HotAir eloquently summarized, any violence short of murder is legitimate, as long as the political aim is pure enough, presumably. This appears to have been too much for Vox chief Ezra Klein as Rensin has been suspended.
So far his tweets have not been deleted…
Advice: If Trump comes to your town, start a riot.
— Emmett Rensin (@emmettrensin) June 3, 2016
@michaelbd Destroying property is legitimate. Shouting down is legitimate. Disruption of all events is legitimate. Murder isn’t.
— Emmett Rensin (@emmettrensin) June 3, 2016
This appears to have been too much for Vox editor in chief Ezra Klein to take (or brush under the carpet), as the next day he announced that Rensin has been suspended for his cheerleading of political violence:
On Thursday night, Emmett Rensin, the deputy editor of Vox’s first person section, sent a series of tweets that, among other things, urged people to riot if Donald Trump comes to their town.
We at Vox do not take institutional positions on most questions, and we encourage our writers to debate and disagree. But direct encouragement of riots crosses a line between expressing a contrary opinion and directly encouraging dangerous, illegal activity. We welcome a variety of viewpoints, but we do not condone writing that could put others in danger.
In this case, Emmett’s tweets violated Vox’s standards and Emmett has been suspended as a consequence.
One can only imagine the level of anger, media hype, and blame-throwing that would have been unleashed were this some right-wing social media site. Where are Trump supports’ “safe spaces”? Don’t they deserve to be protected against micro-aggression (and utterly lawless physical violence)?
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