Thread by @docMJP

I know @jack & @Twitter don’t care when people they disagree w/politically are threatened, but here’s a pleasant Berkeley PhD/@berggrueninst thinktank VP declaring that my friend & colleague Michael Anton deserves to be *executed*. Lib Privilege. Rest of us wld be fired & banned.

These are very, very sick, dangerously arrogant people.

"I am anti-fascist. And that's why I say my political opponents deserve DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD."

But they say & increasingly *do* whatever they want w/impunity b/c they've tacit support of those ruling the public square.

How many privileged elites now spew hate-filled and increasingly violent rhetoric with impunity, even as their soldiers in the streets increasingly get violent and threatening for real, while the rest of us get banned for saying things like "men can't be women"?

How long will we all put up with this? Is my friend and colleague going to need private security? Will I? These bitter ideologues are whipping themselves up into a crazed frenzy that is hard for the rest of us to even imagine. But make no mistake: their words are dangerous.

If you can't do anything about language like this, @jack and @berggrueninst, which is justifying the execution by firing squad of those who disagree with you, then we have to assume you support it. And that's sick and evil.

So we are clear: Michael Anton wrote about activities of Transition Integrity Project, which @nils_gilman helped start/run: americanmind.org/essays/the-com… Nils didn't like it, so he RTed a slanderous response and said Anton deserves to be killed by firing squad for intellectual crimes.

So the response of @nils_gilman and the rest of the TIP crew when what they are up to is pointed out and called a potential coup is to call their opponents racists and say they should be executed by firing squad for intellectual crimes...

Only a Berkeley educated intellectual historian could make such an asinine comparison / “argument” and expect to be taken seriously.