NPR tweets Declaration of Independence, people mistake it as a call for another revolution

On Tuesday the NPR Twitter account began tweeting out the entirety of the Declaration of Independence in honor of the holiday but not everyone realized what was happening.

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The NPR Twitter account began tweeting out the Declaration of Independence in its entirety on Tuesday in honor of Independence Day. But not everyone realized what was happening and things got ... interesting.

Starting at noon the outlet began tweeting out the text of the 241-year-old document, prefacing it with a story about the ritual of NPR journalists reading the founding paper aloud.

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Some newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, reprint the Declaration of Independence each year in celebration of the historic milestone.

The entire exercise was over in just a little more than 20 minutes. Most followers were excited that the outlet took the time to tweet the declaration for history's sake, while some were irked that their feed was taken up by the text.

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More than a few people thought that the Declaration of Independence was a call for a revolution in the United States, not recognizing that NPR was actually repeating the words in a historical document.

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According to the Huffington Post, a few NPR followers even called the words "trash" and some believed that the text was a new work aimed at President Donald Trump. A few people called it an attempted government coup from "desperate parasites" at NPR, looking past the obvious mentions of colonies and Great Britain.

But it's not shade. It's straight from the Dec of Ind. The fact that Trumpers FEELS that it's shade is HILARIOUS to me. — Cher Tushiah (@thegoddesscher) July 5, 2017

Followers on the left seemed to have taken it as a rebuke of Trump under the guise of a history lesson. Twitter is funny that way.

Still, a lot of folks got aggravated for no reason on their day off of work.

Once the smoke cleared some of those lashing at at NPR apologized once they realized this wasn't a call to arms against this government but another one nearly 250 years ago.