CLUELESS Mayor of Berkeley Jesse Arreguin tweets BS about hate speech, regret-tweets 3 hours later

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

CLUELESS Mayor of Berkeley Jesse Arreguin tweets BS about hate speech, regret-tweets 3 hours later

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