I guess he wasn't kidding after all

Yesterday I posted about one Will Wilkinson, a NYT contributing editor and Vox columnist’s call for the lynching of Mike Pence. A reader assured me that the man was just kidding. I accepted the explanation, although many times in the past couple of years the very word “lynching” even when used by white people calling for the lynching of another white, has been deemed by Leftists as racist, as it supposedly evokes triggering memories of southern Democrats’ lynching parties of the last century. Humor’s a funny thing, and I myself have posted things that I thought would obviously be recognized as sarcastic, only to have (some) readers miss the tone. Wilkinson says his tweet was intended to be “sharp sarcasm”, and I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.

But not everyone dd. Yesterday, Wilkinson was fired. Not everyone got the joke.