Governor Glenn Youngkin accused of 'toxic culture' after aides attack teen on Twitter

[marmar]

The Virginia governor, Glenn Youngkin, was accused of creating “a culture of toxicity” in his first months in office, after campaign aides attacked a high-school student, naming and picturing the boy, for sharing a news story about the Republican official.

On Saturday, Ethan Lynne, 17 and according to his Twitter biography a Democrat, posted an article which suggested Youngkin could be trying to stop work to highlight the history of enslaved people at the Virginia executive mansion.

In response, Youngkin’s campaign account posted a picture of Lynne with the former governor Ralph Northam, next to a picture from Northam’s medical school yearbook of two men in racist costumes: one in Blackface and one in a Ku Klux Klan costume.

“Here’s a picture of Ethan with a man that had a Blackface/KKK photo in his yearbook,” Team Youngkin tweeted. ...............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-aides-attack-teen-on-twitter

[Takket]

1. people get what they vote for. imagine that

[MontanaMama]

2. Saw this coming a mile away...n.t

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. All playing out in social media...but Twitter isn't the menace, merely the messenger.

[gratuitous]

4. Toxic? Glenn?

Why, as soon as it became apparent that his little tweet against Ethan Lynne wasn't going over well, he bravely threw the help under the bus and disavowed any responsibility for his attack on a 17-year-old. You know, just like any other normal, well-adjusted psychopath would do.

[underpants]

5. Saturday night too

Someone was “in the cups” I’d guess.

[crickets]

6. 👆👆