Lawmaker Says He's the Victim of 'Social Media Lynching'...

[DonViejo]

By DAVID BADASHJUNE 3, 201911:56 AM

Lawmaker Says He’s the Victim of ‘Social Media Lynching’ After Audio Leaks of Him Laughing About Executing Gays

One of several reasons Hill is refusing to apologize, he says, is because not apologizing "emboldens my base."

Tea Party Republican State Rep. Mike Hill is refusing to apologize – and he's now on the attack, claiming he's the victim of a "social media lynching." Hill was caught on tape laughing after a constituent asked if it would be possible to pass a law to execute gay people, because the Bible calls for it.

"Absurd to ask me to apologize for a statement that I did not make and that no one took seriously. This is a social media lynching!" Rep. Hill insisted in a tweet Saturday.

And while Rep. Hill did not make the initial offensive remarks, he did laugh, and did not tell attendees at the Women for Responsible Legislation meeting – held at Pensacola's taxpayer-funded city hall no less – that even joking about executing someone is unacceptable.

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1. That's gotta be rough, Mike Hill

Just some harmless kidding around about summarily executing your fellow Americans, and suddenly you're the bad guy! How is that even fair? Though, curiously, for being lynched like that, you're still around to speak in your own voice and complain about the injustice of it all, unlike persons who were actually lynched.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. One would think that Mr. Hill, an African American, would use the term more judiciously.

[Volaris]

8. Clarence Thomas didn't...and playing THAT victim, put him on the SC.

dollars to donuts, this is the same play by the tea party idiot.

[Wounded Bear]

2. IOKIYAR...

It's fine to doxx Dems all the time, but he gets some bad posts on twitter and it's a "lynching?"

Snowflake to the core.

[RockaFowler]

4. He keeps saying it on Twitter

His own party has admonished him. It doesn't have anything to do with your race Mr. Hill. It has to do with your horrific words!

[hvn_nbr_2]

5. I didn't say it and no one who was listening took it seriously!????

[msongs]

6. typical bible hypocrite. the bible says adulterers need death yet there he is in a pic with trump nt

[Solly Mack]

7. Yes, genocide is always just so funny. Joking about genocide is just so harmless.

The intended targets of genocide can be just so tetchy.