I hope Film Ladd is correct, at least about the firings. In the case of lawsuits, the process is the punishment, and it can punish both sides. It would be better for the media companies involved to offer generous settlements to the children they appear to have victimized and keep the matter out of court.
However, the individual Twitter thugs shouldn’t be left unaccountable for their cyberbullying. The question remains of how to make a public example of them sufficient to deter such acts in the future.
Public shaming? One massive lawsuit against hundreds or thousands of defendants alleging that they are jointly and severally liable for the incitement to violence?
Alea iacta est.
What is strange is that many of the tweets are still up. Twitter is once again proving that if you target the right people, even falsely, there will be little to no push back.
I would love to see the massive lawsuit. However, the Left has finally and totally ripped off the mask. I wonder how many Catholic parents are considering who hates them and who doesn’t? And I wonder how many moderate-to-liberal Christians are beginning to realize they will be next?
The Left is going scorched earth. We’ll see how that plays out. I have no idea, but I don’t expect it to be pleasant.
The Left can afford to lose a few more percentage points of “white cis male” vote, but not Hispanic (Catholic) vote or Catholic female vote, or perhaps Black Protestant vote.