08-08-2018, 02:46 PM
I don't consider protests to be extremist actions Maggot, you know that.
And you know how I felt about you defending and supporting the Bundys taking government land, pointing loaded weapons at law enforcement, destroying native and government land, and causing schools to be closed and people to be kept from work because they didn't want to pay their taxes and wanted ranchers to be able to break laws with which they disagreed ..........after you'd bitched at length about the inconvenience and property damage caused by some people protesting income inequality and police brutality/discrimination. I discussed those topics with you.
I don't consider blocked intersections and camping out in parks equivalent to telling millions of people that six year olds who were shot to death at school weren't real and that their parents are actors who deserve to be targeted and stalked.
I do consider torching cars and looting shops violent and condemnable. That's something that happens too much by protestors in what are considered mostly left-leaning causes and I condemn it every time and applaud their arrests.
Antifa is a group of anarchists; not right or left wingers.
As for other examples of right-wing outlets or organizations causing harm to others..............I'd consider the member of the white supremacist group who ran over and killed a counter protester last year a good example. Dylann Roof also belonged to racial hate groups -- his reasons for killing 9 black church goers is another good example of violent extremism. There are a lot more.
Anyway, I don't mind calling out extremism from either side and won't try to minimize either, nor will I attempt to make false equivalencies. So, if you want to post some current cases for discussion, I'm in.
And you know how I felt about you defending and supporting the Bundys taking government land, pointing loaded weapons at law enforcement, destroying native and government land, and causing schools to be closed and people to be kept from work because they didn't want to pay their taxes and wanted ranchers to be able to break laws with which they disagreed ..........after you'd bitched at length about the inconvenience and property damage caused by some people protesting income inequality and police brutality/discrimination. I discussed those topics with you.
I don't consider blocked intersections and camping out in parks equivalent to telling millions of people that six year olds who were shot to death at school weren't real and that their parents are actors who deserve to be targeted and stalked.
I do consider torching cars and looting shops violent and condemnable. That's something that happens too much by protestors in what are considered mostly left-leaning causes and I condemn it every time and applaud their arrests.
Antifa is a group of anarchists; not right or left wingers.
As for other examples of right-wing outlets or organizations causing harm to others..............I'd consider the member of the white supremacist group who ran over and killed a counter protester last year a good example. Dylann Roof also belonged to racial hate groups -- his reasons for killing 9 black church goers is another good example of violent extremism. There are a lot more.
Anyway, I don't mind calling out extremism from either side and won't try to minimize either, nor will I attempt to make false equivalencies. So, if you want to post some current cases for discussion, I'm in.