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<\/p>\nMichael Hirsh publishes the addresses of alt-right figure Richard Spencer, who runs the National Policy Institute. (Screengrab\/Facebook).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThese posts were clearly outside the bounds of acceptable discourse, and POLITICO editors regard them as a serious lapse of newsroom standards,\u201d Politico Editor-In-Chief John Harris and Editor Carrie Budoff Brown told TheDCNF. \u201cThey crossed a line in ways that the publication will not defend, and editors are taking steps to ensure that such a lapse does not occur again.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Hirsh\u2019s initial post could have been charitably interpreted to imply advocacy of a non-violent protest outside of Spencer\u2019s home or other similar non-violent actions, a subsequent question and answer clarified Hirsh\u2019s intentions.<\/p>\n
\u201cCompletely agree we should mobilize against his hateful ideas, but what does knowing his home addresses do?\u201d one Facebook user asked Hirsh. \u201cSend a letter? Confront him in person? Seems like counter-speech is the main thing we can do. You can call it \u2018whining\u2019 but I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s fair or constructive. Side note: Apparently the GSA-owned Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in DC felt obligated to host his organization\u2019s event because it can\u2019t discriminate against speech under the First Amendment, so there\u2019s that problem, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hirsh responded in an unhinged manner: \u201cI wasn\u2019t thinking of a fucking letter, Doug. He lives part of the time next door to me in Arlington. Our grandfathers brought baseball bats to Bund meetings. Want to join me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps knowing it wasn\u2019t such a good idea to advocate openly for serious violence against Spencer in a public format, Hirsh deleted the post, but not before TheDCNF grabbed a screenshot.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nA now-deleted Facebook post by Michael Hirsh urging violence against Richard Spencer. (Screengrab\/Facebook).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Hirsh\u2019s\u00a0mention of Bund meetings is a reference to the German-American Bund, a Nazi\u00a0organization in the United States active in the mid-to-late 1930s, which promoted National Socialist ideology and was often subject to violent attacks by Jewish mobsters in New York City<\/a> and Newark, New Jersey, using baseball bats.<\/p>\n