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- 1 de Abr, 2024
It was kind of insane the way people wouldn't accept that right wing violence had occurred in the past AT ALL. It was the most frustrating thing about the kirk thread. Saying anything other than the left are all insane violent psychopaths who are going to kill us all, and the right dindu nuffin. Meant you were "both sides"ing.
They did have one point that I do think is valid. There was some fairly obvious number fudging to try painting the right in a worse light than the left. Like counting violence that happens within prions (like white prison gangs) as "far right extremist violence", and other underhanded methods to make it seem like the countries biggest threat was far right extremist violence. When really the threat of that is pretty minor all things considered. It also was part of the reason they justified such heavy censorship during Biden's admin (although the censorship went way beyond just censoring right wing rhetoric).
The extremists on the right do commit violence, sometimes and I would say increasingly so extremist leftists will also. If we just counted assaulting people I would think the left would have the right beat by far in the last 10 years. For shootings I would say it wasn't the case until fairly recently.
The grave dancing was by far the thing I saw most people actually angry about at the time. Some people who already thought that, were probably saying it right away. But most people were more bothered by the leftists that were celebrating some milquetoast conservative pundit being shot. There is a pretty big disconnect between both sides on this, I don't think people the left get the way people on the right saw that event. Judging by what I see people here saying at least. And I don't mean the political grifters, who were using his death after. I just mean the way normal right wing people saw the shooting, and then the celebration right when it happened.
Also something I want to bring up since I'm talking about this. I was pretty convinced at the time, people were trying to use his shooting to either cause some kind of more serious escalation, or the government was going to try to get some kind of unconstitutional crackdown passed while people were still upset about it (they did end up using that to designate antifa as a terrorist group, so I guess there is that, all things considered I can't say I'm too upset over that). Whatever people were trying to do, there was for sure a really heavy push from somewhere to take advantage of that, and make the left v right divide even more extreme.
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god damn, how do people take this guy seriously. It's honestly sad. This is what we've become. The country is politically torn in half, all over this orange nigger.
