The latest Conservative fight with media may be serious, even as it’s absurd. Performative reaction to the language in a journalist’s tweet shouldn’t fool us from a party that backed the “Freedom Convoy” and its associated rage. Opinion by bruce_arthur
First, let’s all hope Garnett Genuis is OK. You would hate to see the Conservative MP taking different routes to work, holed up in a motel, mattresses against the windows, worried for his life. You’d hate for him to feel unsafe.
This was a hacky tweet. Smith is said to have a tendency to irritate much of the Ottawa press corps, and this was a careless, irritating turn of phrase. But let’s be honest: any real-world interpretation of that phrase would not find any more violence in the tweet if Smith had said, say, break a leg.
“In the current climate we should all know the risks associated with explicitly inciting violence against public officials,” Genuis told reporters. “Some would say surely he is joking, but the problem with so-called jokes implying threats towards public officials is that I, as the target of these comments, somehow supposed to understand and be OK with a threat on the basis of someone’s presumed intentions. And I’m just not OK with this.
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