Liberal Writer: It’s Time to Drown Conservative Students
A Deadspsin editor is not backing down after failing to disavow a former employee who called for the deaths of conservative students.
“While Farrar no longer writes for Deadspin regularly, we as an organization do support his stance of trolling white supremacist supported and associated organizations like Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA,” said Barry Petchesky, deputy editor at Deadspin.
Petchesky was responding to a request for comment from Independent Journal Review regarding remarks made on Twitter by Deadspin contributor Jesse Farrar:
Farrar appeared to advocate for the murder of conservative college students in responding to a Tweet from Turning Point USA’s founder Charlie Kirk, according to Kirk’s response. TPUSA is a conservative student organization with hundreds of chapters on college ad high school campuses around the country.
“I get countless of [sic] messages from students who say professors are lowering their grades & penalizing them for being conservative,” Kirk said.
“They shouldn’t do that. It’s not right. They should hold the conservative students heads under water until they stop breathing instead,” Farrar said in response.
His original response has now been deleted.
AnnaKatherine Clarke, a student at Covenant College, told Big League Politics that Farrar’s comments are disgusting.
“He’s quite literally advocating for water boarding of people he disagrees with, that’s not what America is built on,” she said.
Michael L. Jones, a student at Auburn University, agreed.
“I think it’s disgusting that someone would consider murdering another human in the first place, but particularly reprehensible for political views to be the reason,” he said.
Though Farrar deleted the Tweet pictured above, he re-affirmed that he was not joking about his stance when Kirk tried to give him the benefit of the doubt:
“I’m sure he was joking, but imagine if conservatives made a joke like that against liberals,” Kirk said.
“I am not joking,” said Farrar in response.
Petchesky said in his email response to Independent Journal Review that he would not personally advocate for drowning conservative students, and that Farrar obviously meant the Tweet as a joke.
“I can’t argue that [drowning conservative students] wouldn’t make the world a better place.” https://bigleaguepolitics.com/deadspin-editor-endorses-joke-killing-conservative-students-make-world-better-place/
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"It’s disgusting no matter who directs it at which group."
I actually have to agree with that, that kind of crap is way over the top on either side. Maybe he has a point in there but I don't see it, all he did by being a "super troll" is give the TPUSA and ultra-cons more (us poor, poor cons suffer so) ammunition.
LOL Is that the type of organic fertilizer the TPUSA put out? More poor abused conservatives (the running theme) who are complaining that they're getting poor grades 'cause they're Conservatives? Wow, that's a good one, but I'll let you in on a little secret, people.
Shhhhhh it's a secret, but if you want good grades, try being a good student. Yep, do all that high-forehead stuff like reading, taking notes, going to class and actually STUDYING. Passing tests impresses them all to heck too. Instructors just go nuts for that kind of stuff, and tend to give out good grades for it. Hey, does that somehow mean that if any conservative get a bad grade it's automatically the Instructor's fault because they obviously hates conservatives?
Another slant. Trying to go through school depending on your superior but undeveloped intelligence and that deep common sense instead of studying will not work. No, not even if you're a conservative. You didn't hear that from me and keep it to yourself, it's that big a secret.
Awful convenient time for that guy to spout off, isn't it?
Might it have been a metaphor, along the lines of Grover Norquist ( a Conservative) wanting to drown the government (which is comprised of people) in a bathtub.
If we as a people have reached the point that we are literally wishing death on another due to their political affiliations, then we have truly reached the point of no return.
Death will come quickly enough, I for one would not attempt to hasten it.