Lynch people who take down Confederate monuments, says Mississippi state rep. on Facebook

Over the past few hours, I've watched as a Facebook post (which Facebook has just taken down — screenshot above) by Mississippi state representative Karl Oliver has become a national news sensation as multiple major MSM outlets have now picked up on his call for people who take down Confederate monuments to be lynched.

Here’s what Oliver wrote last Saturday in his post, that was liked by two other MS state reps:

“The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and horrific. If the, and I use this term extremely loosely, "leadership" of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED! Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State."

As of the last time I checked the post, there were over 1600 comments, with hostile ones outnumbering supportive ones by about 20:1

As The Root (one of the early venues to pick up the story) noted, Rep. Oliver’s district includes Money, Miss. where 14-year old Emmett Till was lynched in 1955.