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Um that Tim pool tweet is also in the "just asking questions" phase. It's literally framed as a nefarious sounding open ended question. That's the only way you can do this ****. He would be taken off the air in a heartbeat if he dropped the pretense and just said he supports the violence.
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That is not asking any questions as a dog whistle, it is thinly masking a prescriptive statement with descriptive language. It is almost actionable.
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There's also no Ye equivalent for the LGBT thing. Nobody who is as mask off about it with as prominent of a platform even post-cancellation. There's nothing quite like it that we've seen that I can think of.
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He's also an anomaly. As far as I know there hasn't been a single celebrity since WW2 who''s been willing to torpedo their career and reputation by publicly going mask off antisemite. The right as a whole is more openly anti-trans than they are antisemitic.