Vice Deletes Tweet About Neo-Nazis in the Marine Corps Amid Heavy Backlash: ‘Terrible Timing’
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Vice tweeted, then deleted, a Twitter post with a link to a story about neo-Nazis that have served in the U.S. Marine Corps.
The now-deleted post read: “While many vets are being ousted as far-right extremists, one branch keeps popping up when it comes to neo-Nazis: the United States Marine Corps.”
Verified Twitter users slammed the now-deleted tweet, which was posted on the same day when at least 12 U.S. service members, including 11 Marines, were killed in an explosion outside the airport in the Afghan capital of Kabul – the deadliest attack against U.S. forces in Afghanistan since 2011 and the first U.S. military casualties in the country since Feb. 8, 2020.
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— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) August 26, 2021
Go fuck yourselves. https://t.co/v1lb0Ch4DY
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 26, 2021
Vice deleted this tweet. Cowards. They said what they said. They called our Marines Neo-Nazis. https://t.co/DDvh3wgySG
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) August 26, 2021
✍?uh✍?oh✍? https://t.co/jOJaKLMkV1 pic.twitter.com/w0g2Y4xlr6
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) August 26, 2021
And the winner of the most vile, disgusting, hateful tweet of the day goes to @VICE https://t.co/R1GwTJrfEv
— Matthew Betley ?? (@MatthewBetley) August 26, 2021
There’s terrible timing…then there’s this.
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) August 26, 2021
Vice Media also found itself in the news Thursday after the latest round of layoffs at the company, this time affecting just under 20 employees at Vice Digital and Refinery29, according to a report by TheWrap.
UPDATE 11:50 am ET FRIDAY: The Pentagon corrected the record on Friday and said that there was one explosion, not two.
