We should. But the OP doesn’t do that. He throws in a bunch of lies. The purpose of the post is not to be outraged put to spread propaganda and to attack liberals. Because that’s the only reason they are on this board.
If the OP was more “I don’t care which side you are on, this is bad,” I’d be inclined to agree, and I’m sure that no one would argue.
Hell, I’d go further and call these false flag people homophobes. They put this up without regard to how it would hurt all the other people who would think it was real.
It’s the same thing I claimed about Pewdiepie and his “Death to Jews” bullshit. Yeah, he may not really believe it, and was just testing to see how bad the stuff was that he could get them to say. But it still shows antisemitism, because he didn’t stop to think how it would hurt others.
Unfortunately, I can’t do that here. Because Okrahoma has made this a way to attack liberals, and, of course, I’m gonna defend an unfair attack on liberals.
And for every hoax being trumpeted across the internet there are many, many little real hate crimes going on. Two people I know - non-white non-Americans minding their own business in stores - have had vile abuse shouted at them. Both of them were told to “go home”. One was told that Trump would throw him out. The rise in anti-Semitism in recent months is well-documented and certainly not all leftist false-flag operations, nor are the increase in hate crimes against Muslims.
Yes, there are attention-seeking douches out there making false claims or committing acts to blame on others. But there’s no reason to assume that any given event is false before demonstrated to be so.
I feel comfortable in saying that number of hate crimes orchestrated by the left easily outweighs those coming from the right, possibly many times over.
Hatefulness, intolerance, and dishonesty are traits far more commonly found in liberals than in conservatives. Those are simply the facts of the matter.
Care to spitball that percentage? Is it substantially more or less than, say, grand theft? Murder? Rape? Is the average reported hate crime more likely to be fraudulent than the average reported house fire?
This is why I conflated you with Milo. Because of this “should give you pause”. The vast majority of cases where hate crimes are reported, they legitimately occurred. Yes, hoaxes exist, but certain actors on the right seem to be doing their damnedest to pretend that these hoaxes make up a truly substantial portion of hate crimes, or worse, that they’re enough to discredit claimed hate crimes altogether. It’s a bit like the MRAs who claim that women lie about rape all the time (“Remember Duke? Remember UVA? I can cite a few dozen such for you, that should give you pause!”) and that therefore we should never take any allegation of rape that doesn’t have hard evidence seriously, and it’s a similarly bullshit move.
ETA: I’m not sure that someone who registered for this site with the email address “ilovepresidrenttrump@[domain].com” can be counted on for objective, impartial cites, but I hope to be proven wrong.
It does not surprise me that you’re comfortable saying that.
Not so much “truth” as “truthiness”.
I’d ask you to cite liberal media sources that demonstrated greater levels of “hatefulness, intolerance and dishonesty” than Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage, but I suspect you already know full well your statement wasn’t based in reality.
I’m pretty sure I’d have no trouble at all finding ample examples of leftists, including members of the liberal media. wishing death on, or even outright threatening assassination of, Donald Trump.
There are thousands of additional sources, but methinks you know this, and that evidence means very little to you, so I’ll save myself some time and effort and stop there.
Translation: “I’ll pretend people tweeting is the same as having multiple full-time right-wing television and radio outlets broadcasting lies, slanders and insults, and then run away so I don’t have to be held accountable for my position”.
Superdude has already ably countered at the level you’ve replied at, (and even if he hadn’t, a link to Free Republic would have served as well) so I’ll ask again: where’s the equivalent of O’Reilly, Limbaugh and Savage on the left? Where’s the left-wing version of this? As you can see, evidence means a lot to me. I’m still waiting for some.
If you face hatred, intolerance and threats from the liberals it simply means that you are a racist, fascist and bigot against things that people can’t choose.
Just stop acting like a d-bag and you’ll see that suddenly all the hatred from the liberals vanishes.
Wish there would be as easy remedy against conservative hatred.
I make a faux mashed potatoes using cauliflower. It has butter, heavy cream, and cream cheese in it. The cauliflower functions mainly as a fat delivery system. It excels in that.
And you know this how? As I said, the fact that there are so many hoaxes (and yes, there are SO many - a couple would be an aberration, but if I can easily google you a hundred of them, that’s systematic. And that’s a hundred that WERE found out. How many weren’t?) should give you pause. Should. Of course it doesn’t. You just handwave them away.
