Tweets are funny things.
Especially when you can find them in a timeline that illustrates an exceptionally bad decision made by an elected official, like the Mayor of Berkeley, Jesse Arreguin.
First he tweeted this, at about 8:00 p.m. PST (before the sh*t really hit the fan at Berkeley):
Using speech to silence marginalized communities and promote bigotry is unacceptable. Hate speech isn't welcome in our community.
— Jesse Arreguin (@JesseArreguin) February 2, 2017
So noble. So brave.
So stupid.
Not quite three hours later, he tweeted this:
Violence and destruction is not the answer
— Jesse Arreguin (@JesseArreguin) February 2, 2017
HA! Ya’ think?
Ok, so he gets all big, bad and tough about hate speech basically dumping gasoline on a fire and THEN tweets out that violence and destruction is not the answer.
Huh.
Little late there, mayor.
You allowed it. You normalized it. And you caused it. RT @JesseArreguin Violence and destruction is not the answer
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 2, 2017
you've encouraged it
— Jean Pennie (@jeanmc919) February 2, 2017
Oops.
https://twitter.com/hale_razor/status/827145267765866496
Oops oops.
https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/827143306765275136
Resistance or something.
Then why’d you incite the rioting?—> https://t.co/U1O18Fq4Mw
— DC Dude (@DCDude1776) February 2, 2017
Oops oops oops.
Your peeps don't seem to agree.
— Agatha Gregson (@gregson_agatha) February 2, 2017
Would be HILARIOUS if people hadn’t actually been hurt and property destroyed. It’s like they don’t understand reality and they go with the rosey, rainbow-filled vision in their heads.
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/827020593409118209
Careful, Jesse might find your tweet to be hate speech.
Heh.
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