Robert Reich tweet misinterpreted as violence against Sinema

Obviously, I'd have to be a mind reader to truly know without a doubt what he meant to convey. And I'm not. 
But these points ARE very telling:

“Back of the hand” can also be used idiomatically to mean rebuke. But then, so can the word “rebuke.” Reich chose the words he used."


Previously, when he was chastising others for their rhetoric...

"Reich was clear that the implications of rhetoric are the responsibility of the person speaking. Still, at this time Reich has taken no responsibility for his own violent imagery."

I have included the link to the entire article, so no, nothing was left out. 

You mean you read an opinion piece that confirmed your bias by the far-right Blaze and RedState "journalist" Caleb Howe, whom Mediaite unwisely features on occasion because they think it makes them appear more balanced. And then you did no further research to check what you believed to be true, and you rushed to make a "gotcha" post on the pea board.

Blaze "journalist" Caleb Howe also chose to use only an image of the meaning he wished to convey from a book of idioms that is, shockingly, not available for fact-checking online. I know. I, too, have a hard time believing that a Blaze "journalist" would do such a thing, but here we are.

More readily accessible online idiom dictionaries give both potential definitions. Perhaps you've also read a book that included the phrase "backhanded compliment," which derives from the same well-known meaning of the words Reich used. I assume that if someone said they gave Biden a backhanded compliment, you'd understand that they didn't mean to strike him, right? 

Meanwhile, Reich, who is not known for using violent imagery or advocating violence of any type, retracted his statement and clarified his position on violence. To further demonstrate his lack of violent intent, he did not stand outside and incite a group of people to go and commit violence against Senator Sinema. He also did not refer to Sinema as "the enemy of the people" or suggest that some "2nd amendment people" should do something about her. He didn't suggest that anyone should "lock her up."

I think if Reich had really intended violence against Sinema, he would have gone one of those routes instead of retracting his statement and clarifying his position. But perhaps you hang around with people who express violent intent on the regular, and I'm just not aware of how it's done.

I love you guys but I don't understand why you even engage with pixie. It's always the same thing. Post a gotcha, chastise the peas and then rant at whoever dares to cross her. She comes on here just to "own the libs" or trigger people. It's so at this point.

I’ve been home on Covid exposure quarantine all week. I’m bored AF. That’s all I’ve got.

Did you get your results back yet?

I appreciate his explanation, but I can't be the only person who has never heard that phrase mean anything but an assault. I am 63.

It was a poor choice of words.

Yeah, they were negative. Don’t know what’s causing the cough and general malaise, but it’s not Covid.

For someone who likes to zone in on particulars and details, point out inaccuracies etc., it's interesting to me that pixiechick so far has neglected to edit her own misleading or incomplete post or title.

eta - your post appears to be a screenshot of Robert Reich's tweet.  Since you didn't post the original tweet or link (impossible since its been deleted), I'm guessing that you might have known the tweet was deleted, at a minimum.  And since the tweet was 9 days old, you might have also known that he posted a tweet clarifying his comment and condemning violence in no uncertain terms

Deleting the post, blaming others for HIS choice of words, and not apologizing for his violent imagery against a woman that didn't vote the way he demanded, is not taking responsibility. You wouldn't let that be described as taking responsibility by ANYONE on the right. You would never let that stand. 

And I said "You're being a bit unreasonably pushy and demanding that things get done in your time frame."
You left off the last part of my sentence. You have a bad habit of doing that. 

Clinton era labor secretary who rightfully condemns such things from the Right didn't see anything wrong with doing so himself. 
I know it'll be condemned here, it's not being posted as any kind of gotcha. Just equal representation of current events to discuss.

I appreciate his explanation, but I can't be the only person who has never heard that phrase mean anything but an assault. I am 63.

It was a poor choice of words.