Tennessee legislator shocks with lynching suggestion - Alex Wagner - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

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.

[czarjak]

1. Let me guess.

Conservative? Republican?

[Rhiannon12866]

2. State Representative Paul Sherrell (R - TN District 43)

https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member.aspx?district=H43

[Bucky]

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]

4. How many times have Ya ever heard a self proclaimed gun toting patriot

Say something like, let’s hang ‘em from a tree? The same number of times ya hear said fake patriots say oh I apologize, that’s not what I meant. They know their audience. Fake Patriots don’t 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.