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

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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.