Murder is wrong.
Pogroms are wrong.
Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong.
(If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
Anne Applebaum:
"I think this trajectory is not unfamiliar. We’ve seen it in other places...Once the government has those kinds of powers, it becomes much harder for the other side to compete. The earlier we attempt to stop it the easier it’s going to be..."
