Another day, another MTG and Warhammer controversy. Today's episode actually begins with some YouTuber on a one man crusade to destroy Kotaku. Some jurnalist took issue with this and the YouTuber started making fun of her. In a reasonable escalation of the situation, the jurno tracks down the Tuber's wife and starts DMing her. They go back and forth slinging shit at each other and of course the j*urnaloid can't help but claim harassment. This is where the story proper begins:
Paul Scott Canavan, a MtG and Warhammer artist tweets the following:
This is absolutely the play - we should be doing this with all these weird creeps. Track down their significant others and mothers and string them up.
Surely, this was posted in good faith. Unfortunately, bigot chuds took issues with his tweet and Paul doubled down until bravely private his Twitter and Instagram.
The following threads have some good redditard discussion on it. /r/freemagic will likely go on a campaign to get him fired, and even /r/mtg seems to largely denounce his behavior.
https://old.reddit.com/r/freemagic/comments/1cnants/how_is_this_okay_with_wizards_mtg_artist/
https://old.reddit.com/r/mtg/comments/1cnl4yd/magic_the_gathering_and_warhammer_artist_paul/
Some choice comments:
Guess this guy has never heard of a slippery slope.
What a loser.
He meant proverbially. Like held accountable.
His wording was flagrant. But I do t think he actually meant to hang people.
It's hyperbole I believe.
It's another episode of the words we say don't mean what they mean! 
I am not one for cruxifying people for their opinions, but holy shit threatening peoples family because they don't agree with this jerk offs opinion and ideology is a new fricking low.
That's not what happened here, though. If you look at the context, what he was saying is that if someone is harassing women online their actions should be shown to the women in their life.
He's not saying kill the families of online trolls, the title of this post is really misleading.
"Track down their significant others and mothers and string them up.”
That is verbatim what his tweet said. How is the title misleading?
Several other redditards crawl out of the woodwork to explain how Paul is defending women, so his calls for killing are good, actually. 
I believe unfortunately he has a history of sketchy behaviour. He is the one who posted sales of his artist proof cards and then ghosted people and scammed them out of some money.
Hmm, maybe this guy is based after all… 
I think you are perpetuating a bad faith interpretation of a poorly worded tweet.
“Bad Faith! Bad Faith! Bad Faith!” 
say the line, redditor!
Anyways, place your bets on whether or not this brave woman defender will keep his role as a Magic and Warhammer artist. Personally, I hope he gets fired because he already seems like a schizo. Losing his job would likely make him even more deranged.
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Given the context I do think he probably literally did not understand what "string them up" means, and the article is too biased to make this clear.
Or alternatively, he means you string up the chuds by tracking down their families and shaming them. That's the poor wording that would make more sense.
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Honestly, the fact that he worded the post like a fed is only secondary to the fact that he wants to contact the family members of people that he doesn't like.
I doubt that anyone wants to see a bunch of unhinged Twitterati in their inbox saying how their friend/relative is a nazi MAGA klansman, and that's assuming they would be mentally stable enough not to harass those people themselves for the horrible crime of being somehow related to the person that they don't like.
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They absolutely will harass you if you knowingly stand by your chud friend.
It's justified by the usual "right side of history" bullshit. Of course when chuds turn around and notify someone's family because a girl has an OF or a guy is wearing his sister's underwear, then it's a hate crime.
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