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    1. Leah McElrath  🏳️‍🌈‏ @leahmcelrath 23 Feb 2020

      Leah McElrath  🏳️‍🌈 Retweeted

      Killing journalists is this Sanders supporter’s idea of humor. (And, yes, I know about Matthews horrible comments about Sanders and that this is “satire.” None of that justifies this kind of rhetoric.) https://twitter.com/isamuel/status/1231767697941073920 …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Feb 2020
      Replying to @leahmcelrath

      Wait, you do know that Matthews himself in a non-satirical way said he was afraid Sanders supporters would execute rich guys like himself in central park -- and that Sanders would cheer? Samuels' tweet is offensive but no more so that Matthews' comment.

      4 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
    3. Leah McElrath  🏳️‍🌈‏ @leahmcelrath 23 Feb 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      It is possible to condemn both, as I have. You are defending a man who sent a “satirical” tweet advocating killing a journalist. In an environment in which journalists have actually been murdered due in part to Trump’s rhetoric. Is that really what you want to be doing?

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Feb 2020
      Replying to @leahmcelrath

      I'm not defending him -- Samuels is an asshole (and also has a history of sexual predation). His tweet was terrible. But let's remember who introduced the idea of execution into the conversation about Sanders -- it was Matthews. To an audience of millions.

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        2. Charles P. Pierce‏Verified account @CharlesPPierce 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @leahmcelrath

          But only one of them is running for president.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @CharlesPPierce @leahmcelrath

          Neither Samuels or Matthews is running for president!

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        2. Leah McElrath  🏳️‍🌈‏ @leahmcelrath 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Matthew’s comment was histrionic and, imho, he should lose his position for that kind of panic-mongering. But he was expressing a fear, not making a recommendation.

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        3. Derek‏ @dmrma413 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @leahmcelrath @HeerJeet

          Not defending it, just asking, was it meant to be satire/sarcasm?

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        1. RAGEPATH‏ @ragepath 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @leahmcelrath

          "He/she deserved it" is garbage logic. Matthews should face consequences for what he did, which was also grotesque and irresponsible. But all of us deserve freedom from explicit calls to violence, without expertise in nth-degree irony and a 3-course prereq of context.

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        1. The Clockwork Pope‏ @marcducharme 24 Feb 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @leahmcelrath

          Dude. Whataboutism.

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