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Context matters. "Let’s go and burn that police station down now" If anyone I knew said that I would treat it as a dry joke.

• mc32 6y ago
  I guess this is the problem in identifying “shooters”. Lots of people kid around about horrible things but don’t mean it. One day you find out that one of the kids was not joking and actually meant it. Even people who are friends of the perp have problems sussing this out and can only do it in retrospect.
  • wolco5 6y ago
    What about songs like kill the police by ice tea. A direct call to action exists / police have been killed but he still is free to act in police dramas?
    • mc32 6y ago
      If we took “progressive” politics out of it but retained that we need to remove “violence” from discourse, yes they would have to be banned from Twitter. Progressive politics will say we have to consider the background of the singer and the audience as mitigating circumstance so they might let it slide. Objectively it would have to be banned if we use Twitter’s new rubric.
    • stretchcat 6y ago
      (fyi the song is Cop Killer by Ice-T.)