The first hint came in May when the sports reporter Chris Martin Palmer tweeted ‘Burn that shit down!’ cheering on low-income housing in Minnesota being set ablaze. But then the rioters came for him. Distraught, Palmer tweeted out an SOS.
‘They just attacked our sister community [note the woke gender designation] down the street,’ he furiously typed. ‘It’s a gated community and they tried to climb the gates.’ A mysterious ‘they’ then had to ‘beat them back’. And it got worse. ‘They destroyed a Starbucks.’
The audacity! The impudence! ‘And are now in front of my building. Get these animals TF out of my neighborhood. Go back to where you live.’
The ‘animals’ very quickly replaced Mr Palmer’s romantic, vicarious, subversive thrill with tweet-storming, hair-raising, visceral fear. As it turned out, he didn’t want his shit burned down. Not In His Back Yard.
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