“Is everyone a n****r?”

What at first glance appeared to be an outrageous new tweet made by a far-left journalist with a history of such outbursts has turned out to be a egregious failure to provide clear communication and context.

Julia Ioffe, who now writes for The Atlantic after a rocky past, claims her Twitter account was hacked. Nonetheless, the original note did come from her, posted in 2011 and retweeted yesterday. It provides a lesson in being careful during a climate where just one misstep can effectively end a person’s career.

Whether she was a hacking victim or engaging in another stunt of some sort isn’t yet clear. Her background makes this more difficult to ascertain. Some find the first explanation hard to fathom.

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Why a liberal journalist would use such revolting language is mystifying, but her repeated uses of slurs to describe ethnic and sexual minorities, suggesting the US President was having sex with his own daughter, and claiming that “there were reasons Hitler hated the Jews”, is just unexplainable.

That she now works for The Atlantic, can only be explained by one thing: silence equals consent.

It’s notable that Ioffe was fired from DC news outlet Politico for her vulgar tweet about Donald Trump – and it’s equally notable that she was then hired by The Atlantic, and regularly appears on CNN as a star guest.

Yet it is absolutely jaw-dropping that no less than 21 of her fellow liberal journalists tweeted directly in support of her, clearly condoning and supporting vile behavior from one of their own.

In yesterday’s incident, what’s most surprising is that Ioffe hadn’t deleted old tweets of such an incendiary nature, particularly since they fail to provide context:

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