Last night on Twitter, Mother Jones engagement editor Ben Dreyfuss — son of Hollywood legend Richard Dreyfuss — had some harsh words for Vox and an article they published on how “extreme wealth is overrated.”

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/687488130606317569

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/687488183328706564

But then he might have stepped over the line:

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/687488277260165120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Dreyfuss did admit he was “mean”:

@jaredbkeller i have one speed — Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) January 14, 2016

The author of the Vox hot take, David Heinemeier Hansson, then asked why Mother Jones “accepts” such language from its editors:

Surprised that @motherjones accepts this from its editors. For shame. (Reply to my Vox piece) https://t.co/6huYaIttjp — DHH (@dhh) January 14, 2016

We’d chalk this up to one, gigantic “meh” if not for last week’s news that Twitter unverified Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos — @Nero — for an unspecified violation of Twitter’s terms of service. Yiannopoulos said at the time that it was because of his conservative politics and he wrote last night that the liberal Dreyfuss “will never be censured by @twitter, because he has the right politics.”

Fact: @bendreyfuss will never be censured by @twitter, because he has the right politics. pic.twitter.com/Lf9AS4pYYQ — Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 14, 2016

Yiannopoulos has a point. We don’t believe Dreyfuss actually wanted Vox’s Hansson to blow his head off, but it will be interesting to see if Twitter punishes Dreyfuss in any way for his over-the-top rhetoric (not that they should or that they should have taken away @Nero’s blue check mark):

Isn't this what gets a @Twitter account suspended, or at least takes away verification? https://t.co/yQd9cnH44N — Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) January 14, 2016

https://twitter.com/MusicManDon72/status/687562333158273024

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