CA — Surrey, British Columbia. On December 5, 2019, Nicole Joliet tweeted: “Before the Central Committee of the Soviet of Land Formerly Known As Vancouver has Meghan Murphy executed I would like to personally punch her in the face.”

Meghan Murphy lives in Vancouver and is the founder and editor of Feminist Current, which “provide(s) a unique perspective on male violence against women, pop culture, politics, current events, sexuality, gender, and many other issues.”

Nicole Joliet tweets about wanting to personally punch Meghan Murphy in the face

School Board Trustee Campaign

In 2014, Joliet ran unsuccessfully to be Surrey’s first transgender school board trustee, on a promise to update Surrey’s sexual orientation and gender identity policy. In a blog post during the campaign, the candidate noted that “as a victim of bullying” it was important “to see general improvements to anti-bullying policies”, and that “responses to real or perceived bullying or harassment should be victim-led”.

Nicole Joliet outlines the main reasons for running as a Surrey School Board Trustee

Joliet admitted to having “no credentials”, which may explain the last place electoral finish, securing only 1% of the total votes.

Condemning White Male Violence

Two years later, Joliet wrote about being threatened by a white man while travelling on a bus, noting:

When we look at violence we try to steadfastly ignore the part where men feel entitled, sometimes almost compelled even to demonstrate their supremacy through acts of violence. White men more than anyone else consider violence the highest determinant of social order

Physician, Heal Thyself

Despite a previous public persona of seemingly condemning violence (particularly by entitled white men) and advocating victim-led responses, Joliet solidified the December 5 threat to Meghan Murphy with a follow up retort:

Lol, ya’ll realize this was bait right. Oh wait you can’t because you’re a**** are now blocked. Have fun with that!

And without any apparent hint of irony, stated:

Bullies are stupid. Problem is that stupidity is exactly what makes them so relentless.

Joliet tweeting that wanting to punch Murphy “was bait”, and that “bullies are stupid”

In what appears to be an admission of an inability to control anger, that same day Joliet also tweeted about being in a “frothing rage over a f***ing croissant”.

Joliet “in a frothing rage over a croissant”

In a Facebook post, Meghan Murphy called out Twitter’s hypocrisy in allowing an individual to threaten violence and yet permanently banned Murphy for referring to a male as ‘he’.

Meghan Murphy asks why she was banned for calling a male ‘he’ but violent threats against her are permitted

As of this writing, Twitter has not removed Joliet’s tweet, banned Joliet for threatening violence against a woman, nor restored Murphy’s account.