'Start throwing rocks': In Washington Post, professor urges 'direct action' to defeat white supremacy

Brett T. | 6:05 PM on August 17, 2017

Yeah, this doesn’t look good.

The @washingtonpost is illiberal and advocating violence. pic.twitter.com/kb8BrOayE9

— PragerU (@prageru) August 16, 2017

Liberals accuse conservatives of a lot of things, and one of them is that conservatives don’t “get” subtleties like metaphor and satire. So it’s possible that when N. D. B. Connolly, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, likens the fight against racism and discrimination to a game of rock, paper, scissors, and concludes that it’s time to “start throwing rocks,” he’s speaking metaphorically, right?

Resistance, be it forceful or clandestine, threatened or explicit, stands as our “rock.” Rocks can look like armed self-defense or nonviolent direct-action campaigns.

Maybe it’s just us, but didn’t the NRA just catch hell from the left for defending Americans’ right to armed self-defense over a visual backdrop of “nonviolent” protests?

Wow. Johns Hopkins professor advocates the use of violence in the pages of the WaPo.Democracy dies in rock-throwing. https://t.co/3J1pv8M6AO

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 17, 2017

It’s OK, though, because liberals would never literally throw rocks, right?

He's using it as a metaphor, John.

— The Dumb Money (@The_Dumb_Money) August 17, 2017

Our take? It’s a metaphor, but one hell of a metaphor. If a judge can’t tell the difference between Donald Trump saying “Get ’em out of here” during a campaign rally and someone yelling “Shoot!” while standing next to a firing squad … well, the exact same thing would be deemed incitement were a conservative to write it.

https://twitter.com/tsnmjustin/status/898286098098540544

Yep. In today’s heated climate, we might as well be perfectly clear about that.

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