We have received a legal letter from Thomas A. Clare, of Clare Locke LLP, writing on behalf of the Sacklers expressing the family’s concern that the image of a guillotine and the “guillotine watch” tag…
This is unfortunate. I consider the Sacklers despicable scum. And while I opposed the use of the imagery, I’m also sorry that it gave these scum leverage to do something that almost never happens here at BB, where a collection of scumbags get to force BB to alter a post about said scumbags and apologize for it.
When AOC wrote "Solidarity>“civility” I don’t think she meant “do stuff that will give the opposition leverage over you” as this did. People may not need to be “civil” about the Sacklers, but we do need to be smart, and the “Solidarity>“civility”” point isn’t an unlimited free pass to do anything and be backed by Dems ala the Trump can do no wrong GOP.