What sort of person applauds the murder of a fellow human being? And what sort of person follows such people on Twitter? These are not rhetorical questions. I mean them genuinely. In fact, they’re probably questions each of us should ask ourselves.
Gauri Lankesh’s assassination ignited social media with tweets justifying her murder and, even, saluting her killers. What’s worse, these thoughts were expressed deliberately, loudly and publicly, not hesitantly, sotto voce and behind closed doors.
VikramAditya JungBahadur Rana proclaimed: “I hail those who did that … salute them. Now plz don’t stop at that. Start shooting all those like her &
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