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A contributing opinion writer for The New York Times was fired from his think tank job Thursday over a tweet that jokingly suggested former Vice President Mike Pence be lynched in order to unify the country.
He also said that conservatives really didn’t believe in Biden’s call for unity because they didn’t like Biden’s policy proposals. “Aha! Biden proposes policies I dislike. HIS CALL FOR UNITY IS A LIE!!!” is all the forlorn conservative mind can seem to muster. Sad.” Of course, that’s nonsense. Folks on the right don’t believe Biden’s call for unity because he and his buddies on the left turn around in the next moment, demonize Trump supporters, talk about going after people or shutting down media and influencers on the right. So no, they don’t want unity, they want subse...
A contributing opinion writer for The New York Times was fired from his think tank job Thursday over a tweet that jokingly suggested former Vice President Mike Pence be lynched in order to unify the country. Now-former Niskanen Center Vice President for Research Will Wilkinson raised eyebrows Wednesday night when he offered some tongue-in-cheek advice for President Biden following his inaugural address call for unity. "If Biden really wanted unity, he'd lynch Mike Pence," Wilkinson tweeted. On Thursday, Wilkinson deleted the tweet and issued an apology. "Last night I made an er...
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Don’t Fire People for Dumb Tweets The Niskanen Center bowed to fake outrage from bad-faith right-wing trolls when it fired Will Wilkinson. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On Wednesday, Will Wilkinson, a New York Times contributor and vice president at the center-right think tank the Niskanen Center made a joke on Twitter. “If Biden really wanted unity,” he tweeted, “he’d lynch Mike Pence.” The joke has been called “bad” and “offensive” an innumerable number of times since. Wilkinson’s jape may have been in poor taste, but it did, in fact, work as a joke. You see, on Janu...