To: Wharf Rat who wrote (850758 ) 4/18/2015 9:56:41 AM From: Brumar89 Respond to of 1584064 Leftwing Website Commits Crimethink, Begs Leftwing Mob for Mercy Clickbait Website Boing Boing tweets silly cat joke. And you won't believe what happens next...The left-leaning Boing Boing site actually tweets something funny — and the outrage mob, always on hair-trigger alert , always sweeping the airwaves and the Interwebs Bletchley Park-style in search of something to force them first to the fainting couches and then to the barricades, swings into action . And Boing Boing crumples like a cheap suit in response, whining , “We’re sorry for this offensive tweet. Its transphobia was unintentional, but the hurt it caused is our responsibility.”Mencken — and Charlie Hebdo and the late Christopher Hitchens — weeps. That’s one brave stance, fellas. Of course, the fact that the Wrong People laughed at the original tweet in the first place made things ultra-problematic for the site. So naturally, to get back into the good graces of their core audiences, they insult those who defended them: ......Boing Boing ? @ BoingBoing We're sorry for this offensive tweet. Its transphobia was unintentional, but the hurt it caused is our responsibility pic.twitter.com/vGCqqIdU65 TANSTAAFL @ TANSTAAFL23 @ BoingBoing @ instapundit It's great seeing crazy reactionary leftists eating their own.[ The cat who identified as a German shepherd was funny and had a point. Naturally a leftist would have to apologize for that. ] Over a decade ago when he first proposed it, I balked at conservative blogger/book reviewer Orrin Judd’s thesis that “All Comedy is Conservative,” but it’s becoming truer and truer every day. .............. Read more: http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2015/04/17/boing-boing-meets-the-mob/#ixzz3XfKnxTiR