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    Vox Editor: ‘If Trump Comes to Your Town, Start a Riot’



    by ALLUM BOKHARI
    3 Jun 2016
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    Following the outbreak of violence against Donald Trump supporters in San Jose yesterday, Vox editor Emmett Rensin called for anti-Trump protesters to double down on their rioting.

    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    Advice: If Trump comes to your town, start a riot.
    9:10 PM - 2 Jun 2016


    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    They hate Trump, sure, but they hate him as part of a generalized threat to the Civil Gentry of Elites. Protests are just as bad.
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    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    Let's be clear: It's never a shame to storm the barricades set up around a fascist.
    8:56 PM - 2 Jun 2016


    Despite outrage from other users on Twitter, Rensin doubled down in a bizarre follow-up comment.


    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    Listen, if Trump is Hitler then you've got no business condemning rioters. If he isn't, you've got no business pretending normal is better.
    10:06 PM - 2 Jun 2016


    Rensin’s point appears to be that the punditry, who have regularly compared Trump to a fascist dictator and a threat to democracy, ought to be supporting, or at least not condemning, anti-Trump violence.


    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    1. Spend half a year calling Trump a xenophobic fascist.
    2. Likely victims of xenophobic fascism act out.
    3. "WHAT HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN"
    6:54 AM - 3 Jun 2016


    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    It's very simple: All violence against human lives and bodies is categorically immoral.
    Property destruction is vastly more negotiable.
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    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    But again, the point is that you cannot spend a year calling a man a unique threat to democracy then be shocked when people act that way.
    7:05 AM - 3 Jun 2016


    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    And listen: I do tend to agree Trump is atypically threatening. That's why I'm not going to condemn rioters.
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    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    If you too believe he's a fascist, then ask yourself what it means to concern troll poor, Latino folks who take that belief seriously.
    7:22 AM - 3 Jun 2016


    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    This is the same thing. Instinct is to concern troll people protesting as an affront to democracy and the rule of law. It's a bad instinct.
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    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    You spent a year saying Trump was a fascist, and particularly an anti-Hispanic bigot. Hispanics take that seriously, and you're Shocked.
    7:19 AM - 3 Jun 2016


    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    "What, we can't repeat every day that a man is a unique threat to the fabric of society without some people taking us up on that?"
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    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    And listen: I do tend to agree Trump is atypically threatening. That's why I'm not going to condemn rioters.
    7:21 AM - 3 Jun 2016


    Rensin, who admitted to being a communist in a later tweet, responded to critics accusing him of inciting violence by claiming he was merely calling for property damage, not violence. So that’s OK then …


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    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    @Zack_Parker_ Property Destruction Is Not Violence
    9:13 PM - 2 Jun 2016


    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    ding ding ding ding ding https://twitter.com/socalmike_SD/sta...10708984696835
    10:58 PM - 2 Jun 2016


    He went on to mock critics who threatened to report him to the authorities for inciting violence.

    Look like conservative twitter has decided to Indict Me for Incitement. Good luck, my friends!

    — Emmett Rensin (@emmettrensin) June 3, 2016


    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    "hello fbi"
    "yes hello a man from twitter is trying to incite riots on the internet"
    "my. god."
    10:45 PM - 2 Jun 2016


    He also suggested that conservatives were just as bad.


    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    I wonder how many of the people beside themselves about anti-Trump riots have called for armed revolt against Obama in the past 8 years?
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    Emmett Rensin ✔ @emmettrensin
    "No no that's different that's FOR America, that's resisting an illegal Muslim tyrant!"
    6:19 AM - 3 Jun 2016


    Vox, founded by former Daily Kos editors and edited by Ezra Klein, is well-known for its left-wing biases, masked behind their seemingly objective slogan of “explain the news.” Even so, to have one of their editors defend the violence that occurred in San Jose yesterday is likely to deepen their reputation for left-wing wackiness even further.

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    Vox Editor Calls for More Violent Protests: ‘If Trump Comes to Your Town, Start a Riot’

    As violent protests against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and his supporters reached a boiling point Thursday night in San Jose, California, one editor at Vox is calling on anti-Trump activists to keep the riots coming.

    As ABC News reporter Tom Llamas was reporting that Trump supporters were being “terrorized and beaten up by mobs of protesters,” Vox editor Emmett Rensin took to Twitter to mock the development.

    A few minutes later, the Vox editor began explicitly calling for more rioting against the “fascist” billionaire businessman and his faithful followers, declaring, “If Trump is Hitler then you’ve got no business condemning rioters.”

    Twitter users were quick to respond to Rensin’s suggestion, many mocking Vox for the content it publishes.






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    Vox suspends editor for encouraging riots at Donald Trump rallies

    by Dylan Byers @CNNMoney
    June 3, 2016: 3:10 PM ET

    Ezra Klein's Vox has suspended one of its editors after he encouraged people to start riots at Donald Trump rallies.

    The editor, Emmett Rensin, tweeted late Thursday night that it was "never a shame to storm the barricades set up around a fascist." He then added, "Advice: If Trump comes to your town, start a riot."

    In a statement on Friday, Klein wrote that "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," he wrote. "In this case, Emmett's tweets violated Vox's standards and Emmett has been suspended as a consequence."

    Reached by email, Rensin declined to comment on the record. However, in subsequent tweets on Thursday night he sought to clarify that while he endorsed riots as a response to fascism he did not condone violence.

    Nevertheless, Rensin's tweets, which came in the wake of violent protests outside Trump's campaign rally in San Jose, Calif., were quickly flagged by conservative and right-wing websites as evidence that anti-Trump protesters condoned and encouraged violence.

    "Golly, mightn't this play hob with the accusation that Donald Trump is the one inciting riots?" HotAir's Ed Morrissey wrote. "This is yet another example of how the leftist media is legitimizing the kind of mayhem we saw in San Jose yesterday," argued InfoWars' Paul Joseph Watson.

    Progressives, too, chastised Rensin for his tweets. Clara Jeffrey, the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, said Rensin's remarks played "right into Trump's hands."

    http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/03/medi...d-trump-riots/
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    VOX News editor SUSPENDED for advocating VIOLENCE against Trump supporters at rallies

    VOX News editor SUSPENDED for advocating VIOLENCE against Trump supporters at rallies

    Posted by SooperMexican on Jun 4, 2016 at 10:20 AM in Politics

    By SooperMexican

    An editor from that den of vipers at Vox News has been suspended for tweeting that maybe people are justified in attacking Trump supporters.

    Here’s more from Fox News:

    An editor with the website Vox was suspended Friday for a series of tweets encouraging protesters to “start a riot” at Donald Trump rallies – shortly after the Republican candidate’s supporters were attacked outside a San Jose rally the night before.

    “We welcome a variety of viewpoints, but we do not condone writing that could put others in danger,” the site’s founder, Ezra Klein, said in a statement announcing the suspension of Emmett Rensin.

    Rensin, deputy editor for the site’s first-person section, had taken to Twitter as reports first emerged of the chaotic scenes Thursday night outside the California rally, where protesters confronted supporters of the presumptive GOP nominee as they departed. Supporters were punched, and one woman was seen on film being hit with an egg and other trash.

    …”Listen, if Trump is Hitler then you’ve got no business condemning rioters. If he isn’t, you’ve got no business pretending normal is better,” he argued.

    Several bloggers, including Ed Morrissey of the conservative Hot Air, criticized Rensin’s comments, but it was not until Friday afternoon that Klein chimed in. A frequent commentator on MSNBC, Klein left his position as a Washington Post columnist to start Vox in 2014.

    In announcing Rensin’s suspension, Klein asserted he welcomes debate, but that “direct encouragement of riots crosses a line between expressing a contrary opinion and directly encouraging dangerous, illegal activity.”

    Meanwhile, Trump commented on the San Jose chaos during a rally Friday afternoon in Redding, Calif., calling some of the protesters “thugs.”

    It really does sound like he’s justifying the wretched violence perpetrated on innocent Trump supporters, and that cannot be excused. On the other hand, his theoretical, philosophical point is debatable – you cannot say that violence should not be a part of politics. Wasn’t that exactly what the American Revolution was? If you accept that principle, then the real debate is whether any specific political movement rises to that level of threat. But these protesters don’t seem like geniuses with a political science degree – they appear to be dumb thugs who have been whipped into a frenzy by the media to attack innocent people. It’s stupid for anyone to encourage that kind of stupidity – no matter what political agenda they’re advocating, left, right, or toupee-populism.


    VOX News editor SUSPENDED for advocating VIOLENCE against Trump supporters at rallies!

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