“They can talk about violence, they can advocate for violence, and then say, ‘Well, it was just a joke’”: from a Washington Post article on white supremacists, coded language, and “humor.“ Members of Congress should be thinking about these matters when thinking about threats from Paul (“It’s a cartoon”) Gosar — and from anyone else.
Thursday, November 18, 2021
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I've been reading the more-or-less live transcription on Twitter of the Charlottesville trial, and this use of "jokes" is documented as a prescribed part of the white nationalist (neo-Nazi, what-have-you) playbook. Not that we didn't know that already.
ReplyDeleteReading some of the details — it’s sickening.
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