(UPDATED: This tweet was from a hoax account, not Ammon Bundy. Salon regrets the error.)
Bird-watching sanctuary hijacker and inadequate snack-planner Ammon Bundy took to Twitter to try to convince the masses that his cause is a noble and just one yesterday:
Not surprisingly, Twitter did not agree:
Nice try. Rosa Parks didn't hijack a bus with an assault rifle because she didn't want to pay the bus fare. @Ammon_Bundy
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) January 6, 2016
It’s almost as if people who aren’t white conservatives have a difficult time buying that the plight of white conservatives is analogous to the oppression that led to Civil Rights Movement:
@Ammon_Bundy Did you really just compare yourself to Rosa Parks?!?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no— Shed Head (@jjsnyder76) January 6, 2016
Moreover:
A more apt comparison might be:
