My brother is on a @united flight from LA to Boston and saw this guy boarding with a shirt that reads “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required.” #thread pic.twitter.com/MWy5HnDxzI
— Jessica Sidman (@jsidman) October 11, 2019
How do you take seriously a journalist who takes this as a threat?
Via Twitchy:
We’ve seen these shirts before — believe us, whenever the mainstream media has to cover a Trump rally, they go out of their way to photograph the most extreme signs and shirts — and we can’t say we’re fans. We call out journalists for bias and fake news all the time on this site, but suggested they be hanged is a bit much.
However, what happens when a man wearing such a shirt boards an airplane and other passengers feel threatened? It’s just a T-shirt, obviously, but on Friday there was quite a back and forth over what United should have done.