Thursday, August 8, 2019

Outside Sen. McConnell's home: more signs of decline in American culture

Patterico's Pontifications (Language advisory)
. . . "Team Mitch posted a video of the protests, which resulted in a suspension from Twitter:
After sharing a video of a profanity-laced protest outside of the Kentucky Republican’s home in Louisville, the campaign Twitter account, Team Mitch, has been locked out.
“This morning, Twitter locked our account for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell. This is a problem with the speech police in America today,” McConnell campaign manager Kevin Golden told the Courier Journal. “The Lexington Herald-Leader can attack Mitch with cartoon tombstones of his opponents. But we can’t mock it.
“Twitter will allow the words of “Massacre Mitch” to trend nationally on their platform, but locks our account for posting actual threats against us,” Golden added. “We appealed and Twitter stood by their decision, saying our account will remain locked until we delete the video.”
"The critical part of the video:
Black Lives Matter Louisville leader Chanelle Helm said in a live video of the protest that instead of falling and injuring his shoulder over the weekend, McConnell “should have broken his little raggedy, wrinkled-(expletive) neck.”
After a man makes a reference to a hypothetical McConnell voodoo doll, Helm replied, “Just stab the m—– f—– in the heart.”
"Further:
“Everybody needs to show up wherever this ho is at and make him just regret his fucking life, period,” she added.
"You can watch the relevant portion beginning at the :28 mark. Obviously, Twitter has taken down the original video:


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