Think of it. You can’t go a day — an hour, even — without hearing about one more attack by the Left on the current president. These attacks on the president and all those who don’t aggressively oppose him or his administration have become increasingly vulgar, dismissive and bullying in recent months.
In addition to people like Samantha Bee and Robert De Niro, add “Wire” creator David Simon to the mix. He took his critiques of President Donald Trump so far that he wished death upon a Trump voter who disagreed with him on Twitter.
On June 5 Simon replied to a user who said the Trump administration’s immigration policies were not too different from the last administration’s by saying, “You empty s***crest. ‘This kind of thing’ is a new policy announced proudly by [Attorney General] Jeff Sessions and adopted only by this administration. You should die of a slow moving venereal rash that settles in your lying throat.”
In a post put up on his website later, Simon revealed the threat got him suspended from Twitter.
“As far as I’m concerned, your standards in this instance are exactly indicative of why social media — and Twitter specifically — is complicit in transforming our national agora into a haven for lies, disinformation, and the politics of totalitarian extremity. The real profanity and disease on the internet is untouched, while you police decorum,” Simon wrote in response to Twitter’s decision.
He also told Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to “die of boils.”
Twitter policy states that users “may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”
This is merely the latest example of someone in the “resistance” who thinks his politics and beliefs excuse any and all despicable behavior and language about those who disagree with him.
The worst part about all of this? David Simon is the critically acclaimed writer behind such critically acclaimed works as “The Wire” and “Homicide.”
Are these unimaginative death threats really the best he can come up with when talking politics? If so, then maybe he should find a new hobby.
PopZette editor Zachary Leeman can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter.
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