Regardless of Paul’s, Perry’s, or anyone’s answer to the hypothetical posed, it is ridiculous for the media to cling to crowd reaction. We could compile a laundry list of youtube videos depicting liberal/Democrat crowds cheering violence, racism, etc. The desperation is palpable.
I remember the crowd reaction at the NAACP when the story was about ‘sticking it to whitey’.
Somehow the media was all up in arms about how the story came full circle and the speaker decided that ‘sticking it to whitey’ was not productive, so therefore the clip of the audience reaction was somehow “out of context”.
The audience at the NAACP didn’t know where the story was going - they cheered a black woman using the power of government to discriminate against white people.