“But she was at a place where mob violence due to politics was or did happen…”
Yeah, the reason you get accused of victim blaming is because this, right here, where you “fine people” the rightwing’s murderous attacks plus the most passive of passive voices while shrugging in the implication that she should have expected violence is why.
She was at a place…This is “What did she expect?” The “mob violence” was to be expected, and the real issue here was this silly woman with her unreasonable standards. On r/the_Donald at Reddit they offered tips on ramming pedestrians with vehicles, promoted the gathering, jeered and attacked the victim, and then frantically tried to scrub away all of the above.
Where mob violence could or did happen…One side-----yours-------favors threats, hatred, lies, and bigotry and elected a man who has espoused or demonstrated all four, usually daily, . I wonder how long it will be before someone whips out the baseball shooting as a counter example, as if Bernie Sanders preaches hatred the way Trump does.
Due to politics…This deserves highlighting again because one side preaches hatred, and the other side is fighting against that. When the first group goes underground, they continue to preach hatred, lies bigotry, and genocide. The other side simply ceases to exist in that they go back to playing video games and eating Fluff out of the jar.
Did happen…Passive voice. It did NOT just sort of magically…drop out of the sky. It was planned, preached, memed, and now rightwing legislators are trying to legislate it. You cannot argue that a guy in a car weighing 1500 lbs. is threatened by unarmed people weighing anywhere from 100lbs. to whatever each. The car is capable of high speed and is made of metal and steel while people are made of fragile bone and skin.
“From being consequenced”? So one guy with a stick is equal to one guy in a truck that weighs thousands of pounds and can reduce that pedestrian to a smear on the pavement?
Sure, why not do it with your full name, address and SSN printed out on your shirt, too ? :dubious:. I mean it’s not like fascists fucking murder people or anything :rolleyes:.
I don’t advocate political violence. Several folks on this board actually do. I’m not surprised people have died or have been maimed at these events. Not being surprised is not being ok with it. When I say escalation is unavoidable once violence is excused is in no way an advocation of violence.
We have a functioning democracy even if many feel that it’s flawed. As long as we have a functioning democracy violence in the context of achieving a political aim is unacceptable to me. Other posters favor violence if it achieves their goal. I’m not one of them.
You seem to be displeased that there are more people willing to take a stand against murderous fascists than there are murderous fascists. Why is that ?
(Hint : showing in larger numbers than fascists is a way to PREVENT VIOLENCE from taking place, you pea-brain).
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