Continuing its 29-year tradition of broadcasting an annual reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, National Public Radio accompanied that broadcast with line-by-line tweets of the founding fathers’ statement Tuesday.
But some Twitter users interpreted the tweets as an attack on President Donald Trump, calling NPR “propaganda” and said the radio station was “calling for a revolution.”
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
— NPR (@NPR) July 4, 2017
When you're triggered by the Declaration of Independence bc you want so badly to submit to King Donald the Doll-Handed…. pic.twitter.com/aEyLEu24Qc
— Alexandra ? (@AlexandraAimee) July 4, 2017
there's nothing more american than getting pissed because you think the declaration of independence is shitting on the president pic.twitter.com/gkWSTR8SIY
— Goth Ms. Frizzle (@spookperson) July 4, 2017
Several of the Twitter users who responded negatively to NPR’s posts deleted their accounts or deleted the tweets, with one user saying he made a “dumb comment,” but questioned whether most Americans would be able to identify the Declaration of Independent if it were read to them.
Okay, okay…I screwed up with @npr. I jumped the gun and tweeted when I should have waited for them to finish. I offer my apologies.
— D.G.Davies (@JustEsrafel) July 5, 2017
I Tweeted a VERY dumb comment. But ask yourselves; if read to the average American, would they know that you were reading the DOI? I do now.
— D.G.Davies (@JustEsrafel) July 5, 2017
NPR Spokeswoman Allyssa Pollard said the tweets were shared by thousands of Twitter users and started a “lively discussion” online.
This is like when they get upset that a villain in a movie is similar to their leaders. Yet they fail to take the next thought of why all these villains are like the people they support.
Interesting how the Reich-wing immediately saw their God represented in the text…
“Some Twitter Users”…
Say no more…
140 characters = IQ of 14
I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t recognize most of the text of the Declaration of Independence… but on the fourth of July I might suspect that I was missing some key context and so I might google some snippts before I opined that NPR was calling for a literal fucking revolution.