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Related: About this forumTennessee legislator shocks with lynching suggestion - Alex Wagner - MSNBC
Jelani Cobb, staff writer at the New Yorker and Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, talks with Alex Wagner about a Tennessee legislator suggesting that lynching be added as an option in new state death penalty legislation. - Aired on 03/02/2023.
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Tennessee legislator shocks with lynching suggestion - Alex Wagner - MSNBC (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Mar 2023
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czarjak
(12,323 posts)1. Let me guess.
Conservative? Republican?
Rhiannon12866
(220,128 posts)2. State Representative Paul Sherrell (R - TN District 43)
Bucky
(55,334 posts)3. Lynching doesn't mean "hanging"; You can be lynched by gun or knife or a pummeling of rocks.
Lynching means an extrajudicial killing. You only think lynching means hanging because you're an American.
For that matter, this Tennessee Einstein only said "hanging from a tree" because he's an American and learned his history.
BOSSHOG
(39,492 posts)4. How many times have Ya ever heard a self proclaimed gun toting patriot
Say something like, lets hang em from a tree? The same number of times ya hear said fake patriots say oh I apologize, thats not what I meant. They know their audience. Fake Patriots dont get elected by reaching across the aisle and doing good stuff for America by research and determination. They just have to say stupid shit and act tough. They are reworded with another term of socialist pay. The base ignores apologies. The good guys do to.