Friday, January 22, 2021

Well, this is stupid

Will Wilkinson made what was clearly a sarcastic/sardonic joke tweet (about those Republicans who wanted to lynch Pence) and regretted it:


 but still got sacked from the Niskanen Centre for it:


And those who are doing this: 

 

 are using the same bad faith, pretend it's not a joke, line that I have seen Sinclair Davidson use with me, many years ago.   (Because they don't want to see legitimate calls for violence from their side of the fence punished, in the name of free speech.)  

Update:


 Others disagree that it was even a bad joke (and actually, I am inclined to agree):








Yet more:




1 comment:

  1. Very hard to see this other than a sharp joke.


    I agree this is a subject you should not joke about.
    Getting sacked for this is indeed a joke. A bad one

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