Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing bipartisan backlash over comments that the Justice Department “will absolutely target” anyone who targets others with “hate speech.”

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    I’m assuming that will also extend to people using hate speech against racial minorities or lgbtq+ folks? Or just white people?

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    I saw the post from yesterday of Trump responding to this. But I figured I would post the initial exchange.

    According to Pamela, Charlie Kirk’s words should have made him a target.

    Also, should we assume they will be targeting the swaths of right-wingers who called for retaliatory violence? Or literally any car with a Punisher sticker, or 2A messages of violence?

    /s because I know they won’t be

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    It was ok when she targeted people before and everyone knew it but now that she has accidentally said it out loud she will face “criticism”?

    Yet others are losing their jobs and having their lives upended just for saying something totally legal online.

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      Losing their jobs for not reacting in the right way. Yet I haven’t heard of a single person calling for “retaliatory” violence fired.

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        and they still haven’t fired Kirk after he said that the president should be executed