Emmett Rensin, an editor for Vox, openly called for rioting at Donald Trump rallies. Those tweets came right after illegal aliens, waving Mexican flags assaulted several Trump supporters. Ironically, these scum objected to Trump saying illegals from Mexico were prone to criminality and the illegal aliens protested by committing assaults, a crime in any nation. For his tweets, Rensin was suspended as an editor for Vox. Suspended? Why not fired? If a republican called for riots at a Hillary rally, Ezra Klein, the founder of Vox would be the first one calling for his head.
I take the suspension as tacit approval of Rensin’s call to arms, but that he needed to be more subtle, because those tweets were soundly rejected even by the most liberal news sources.
Here is the announcement from Ezra Klein:
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.
It’s very simple: All violence against human lives and bodies is categorically immoral.
Property destruction is vastly more negotiable.
You see it all through American history. John Brown, The Battle of Blair Mountain, the 20th Century Anti-War Movement, ACT UP.
The point, as always, isn’t “Is violence OK?” It’s the folks who want first and foremost to delegitimize the fear and rage of the oppressed.