No, Mark, “When the Looting Starts” IS a Dog Whistle

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In meeting with Facebook employees who objected to Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to fact check, deprecate, or remove Donald Trump’s quote “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” the Facebook founder made mild concessions but defended his decision to allow the remark to stand:

During the gathering, Zuckerberg said the language in Trump’s post had “no history of being…