I should be terrified to engage you. You leap from ad hominem to ad hominem with a tiny dose of mental illness shaming as a bonus. How can reasonable responses prevail against that onslaught?
This is a classic illustration of the ethical bankruptcy of a certain segment of modern conservatism. I mean, we all agree that treating bigotry and bullying and deception and hatred and harassment as a “circus”, an “entertainment” spectacle, is despicable, right?
People used to watch executions and freak shows and slaughtering for “entertainment”, too. Nowadays that’s not considered socially acceptable. But apparently there are still conservatives who think that trolling unoffending strangers with vile insults or suggestions that they kill themselves, telling nasty lies about them to half the internet, etc., counts as a form of recreational amusement.
The hysterical overreaction is entertaining. Who doesn’t like, even as a guilty pleasure, watching anarchists run amok? What’s more popular Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead or staring at happy little flowers on some PBS show?
Should Milo be a jackass and personally attack people for their looks? I’m not a fan of that. But ridiculing the excesses of modern liberalism I don’t have a problem with.
But you are apparently perfectly willing to put up with it because you’re “entertained” by the so-called “hysterical overreaction” to it.
Conservatives can’t pretend that “hysterical” liberals are in any way forcing them to subsidize Yiannopoulos’s hateful trolling, misogyny, racism, and deferential glamorizing of Nazis and white supremacists. If you find outrage against hatred and bigotry to be so “entertaining” that you’re willing to tolerate the hatred and bigotry for the sake of the “entertainment”, it’s not the outraged people who are the despicable assholes here.
And apparently you cannot tell the difference between being entertained by theatrical simulations of fictional conflict and being entertained by watching actual people get hurt in real-life conflict. Do you watch ISIS decapitation videos for fun, too?
I’m starting to get worried. You’ve demonstrated that you approve of shooting people for peaceful disagreement, and here I am disagreeing with you. I wish you right-wingers weren’t so violent. You’re a danger to this nation.
If you want to go with that interpretation do notice that she “reported” that when Yiannopoulos and his crew had to flee in fear for their safety they were fleeing from the left. “It’s a wet night in Berkeley, California, and Yiannopoulos is running away from the left”
If that’s how you want to see the left described, as mob that feels entitled to the use of violence, so be it; I thought I was being charitable in thinking she was just projecting her own feelings.
Your arguments are all over the place to the point that I’m not sure if you even understand them. This is the third different defense of misreading her that you’ve made.
So, if she thinks violence is okay, she’s just projecting her own feelings. But if she thinks the left thinks violence is okay, that reflects badly on the left?
Awesome. The right is full of troglodytic monsters who elected a buffoon to the presidency because they are genuinely incapable of anything but blind panic and spite. Their racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, insular, and laughable ideas are an embarrassment to humanity, and people snicker about them behind their backs, when they aren’t snickering at them to their faces.
Enforcing an ideology through the use of violence is not acceptable, what is there to argue?
What’s the trendy word these days?, it normalizes political violence, you (and the writer of that article) may wrap it in as many layers of sophistry as you wish, but that shit still stinks.
And seriously, if someone becomes the target of violence it’s probably their own fault? do you have any idea what lies at the bottom of that rabbit hole?
The the zeitgeist of this message board was different back then, even back a couple years, now I see some very worrying ideas bandied around here.
Another thing that has changed for me since then is that I’ve seen first hand what those ideas can lead to, it’s not nice to wake up every morning to check what was the body count from last night’s political violence; you know, when bombs go off, bullets fly and people are burned to death a couple blocks from were you live, you start to take a dim view of people who have a cavalier attitude towards the use of violence.
Maybe it’s the crazy pills kicking in, but if someone suggest a gay man should kill himself for saying things against homosexuality, the big idea is that he, as a gay man, is not supposed to say those things.
Of course, YMMV.
You left out ‘sadistic’. I didn’t hear a lot of booing from his supporters when he announced his intention to embark on a program of torture and murder.