Politico National Editor Reportedly Resigns After Doxing White Supremacist Richard Spencer
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[quote]A Politico editor who appears to have posted the home addresses of alt-right leader Richard Spencer and then advocated going to his house with a baseball bat reportedly has resigned. Now, he’s the target of Spencer’s army of alt-right trolls.
Michael Hirsh, the national editor at Politico Magazine, posted what appear to be Spencer’s home addresses on Facebook on Tuesday with the instructions to “Stop whining about Richard B. Spencer, Nazi, and exercise your rights as decent Americans. Here are his two addresses.” He then gave two addresses in Virginia and Montana.
One of Hirsh’s Facebook friends then asked in the comment section of his initial post, “what does knowing his home addresses do? Send a letter? Confront him in person? Seems like counter-speech is the main thing we can do. You can call it ‘whining’ but I’m not sure that’s fair or constructive.”
Hirsh responded: “I wasn’t thinking of a fucking letter, Doug. He lives part of the time next door to me in Arlington. Our grandfathers brought baseball bats to Bund meetings. Want to join me?”
According to the Daily Caller, a conservative website, Hirsh then resigned.
“These posts were clearly outside the bounds of acceptable discourse, and Politico editors regard them as a serious lapse of newsroom standards,” Politico Editor-In-Chief John Harris and Editor Carrie Budoff Brown told the publication. “They crossed a line in ways that the publication will not defend, and editors are taking steps to ensure that such a lapse does not occur again.”[/quote]
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Doug is a good man, if only people would follow his example
Good. As much as I despise the rhetoric of fools like Spencer, advocating violence is never justified. He ought to be ashamed of himself.
Isn't this sort of thing actually illegal? He just posted to most probably thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people that they ought to physically attack someone.
Someone doesn't agree with me so we should resort to physical violence and release their info!
Good job idiots, terrorizing your own fellow citizens. I don't care you can have shit ideas, shit opinions, and be factually wrong. THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT OKAY TO SUPPRESS OR TERRORIZE THEM for having these ideals.
spencer is as goony as they come but still lol at the internet tough guy posturing by a 60 year old man who probably hasn't been in a violent confrontation since he was in high school
p.s life lesson - dont do this. First of all, you're setting yourself up for legal hot water by announcing on a public forum that you intend to commit assault (even just implying). Secondly, if you don't follow through on your threat you look like a big pussy.
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