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This is not a random nobody, they type of which the right likes to smear all leftists with 'they' or 'them' in trying to attribute words and actions of people with no voice or power as 'the left more broadly'.
This is a key media figure. The left will try and deny this while maintaining a narrative that it is the right who are calling for and engaging in escalating violence but this one is hard for them to deny...
The op-ed titled “Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE!” was published Friday morning ...
“Today, I choose violence,” he wrote. “Literally.”
“I know calls for violence are generally frowned upon,” he added. “The issue is … I simply don’t care.”
Ingersoll’s argument was that the “cost” of “anti-social and subversive behavior” was “not high enough,” and in his opinion, “some of this cost needs to be summary and ultra-violent.”
“The law is not enough,” he declared, and reiterated that he was literally calling for violence, writing, “Is this a call for violence? Yes. Explicitly it is.”...
The solution, wrote Ingersoll, was to “[c]hoose violence” and do “[w]hatever works” to “reinstitute the cost,” offering several hypothetical scenarios in which he urged conservatives to “be wildly disproportionate” in their responses if liberal stole signs or vandalized property, urging them to “[t]urn it into an instant brawl,” “break bones,” and hire “the kind of security that has no qualms hospitalizing” people.
Ingersoll encouraged conservatives to commit these violent acts even if police were present ...
“I want blood in the streets,” he wrote.
The column concluded with an explicit rejection of legal remedies or other peaceful methods, and emphasizing his support for “disproportionate violent action”:....
This is a key media figure. The left will try and deny this while maintaining a narrative that it is the right who are calling for and engaging in escalating violence but this one is hard for them to deny...
Daily Caller Editor ‘Literally’ Calls for Conservatives to Violently Attack Liberals: ‘I Want Blood in the Streets’
The Daily Caller, the conservative website co-founded by Tucker Carlson, published an op-ed on Friday written by editor at large Geoffrey Ingersoll that “literally” called for conservatives to “choose violence” against liberals — eventually adding an editor’s note after hours of vociferous backlash.The op-ed titled “Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE!” was published Friday morning ...
“Today, I choose violence,” he wrote. “Literally.”
“I know calls for violence are generally frowned upon,” he added. “The issue is … I simply don’t care.”
Ingersoll’s argument was that the “cost” of “anti-social and subversive behavior” was “not high enough,” and in his opinion, “some of this cost needs to be summary and ultra-violent.”
“The law is not enough,” he declared, and reiterated that he was literally calling for violence, writing, “Is this a call for violence? Yes. Explicitly it is.”...
The solution, wrote Ingersoll, was to “[c]hoose violence” and do “[w]hatever works” to “reinstitute the cost,” offering several hypothetical scenarios in which he urged conservatives to “be wildly disproportionate” in their responses if liberal stole signs or vandalized property, urging them to “[t]urn it into an instant brawl,” “break bones,” and hire “the kind of security that has no qualms hospitalizing” people.
Ingersoll encouraged conservatives to commit these violent acts even if police were present ...
“I want blood in the streets,” he wrote.
The column concluded with an explicit rejection of legal remedies or other peaceful methods, and emphasizing his support for “disproportionate violent action”:....