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Originally Posted by Chico23231
Left wing violence is a serious problem.
The examples of the Left’s frequent recourse to terror, mayhem, and death abound. There is formally extralegal violence, which includes the murder of Kirk, the transgender killers of small children, the deliberate creation of insecure common spaces in which assaults and deaths occur, the murders of Jews in public, shooters targeting conservative organizations, and the various attempts to kill conservative presidents, Supreme Court justices, and congressmen. There is also regime-sanctioned mass violence—most significantly the Black Lives Matter insurrection during the summer of 2020. Additionally, there are varieties of formal and networked repression, from government-imposed pandemic restrictions and iniquitous racial/ethnic preferentialism to societally enforced cancel culture and speech codes.
It is worth noting that this is not especially incisive or contrarian analysis: everyone knows it. Everyone knows that the Left is the violent faction in American public life today. Everyone knows that shop windows were boarded up in November 2020 out of fear of the Left’s reaction to the election, not the Right’s. Everyone knows there is no threat to public order in response to the murder of Charlie Kirk as there was after the death of George Floyd. Everyone knows that a gathering of pro-Palestinians carries with it a high potential for violence, but a gathering of pro-Israel partisans does not. Everyone knows there is a national network of street fighters on the Left, not on the Right. Everyone knows that colleges have to worry about security for conservative events, not leftist ones.
Everyone knows
And the thought this is the “fringe”, that lie was destroyed this week. This murder was celebrated on social media by nurses, soldiers, healthcare professionals, government workers, professors and teachers.
Political violence and murder are an endorsed democrat mainstream view now. Pathetic little people…just pathetic
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I rarely post here in this side of the forum however I do come here sometimes to learn people's perspectives as I always want to learn and understand all sides' perspective on all topics. In this case, I have to say something, for you to blame this solely on the democrats is shortsighted. There are evidence-based researches that shows the political violence have grown in the last few years and the violence came from both sides. On top of that, we literally have politicians who promote violence (directly or indirectly).
When you turn a blind eye to your party's wrongdoings, you are doing exactly what you are angry at the other party about - ignoring their own party's wrongdoings and being angry with the opposite party for the exactly same wrongdoings. By engaging in this action, you are contributing to the endless vicious cycle that has potentials of breaking this country apart.
Edit: I want to add this since the emotions are wildly high all over the country and it is very easy to make assumptions when people are emotional. Chico, it seems like you are personally impacted by the death of Kirk, I'm very sorry that you had to experience this. I personally barely knew anything about Kirk prior to the death, and after watching a few of his debates after learning about his death - while I do not agree with a lot of his perspectives, I am not happy that he was killed. I have no doubt that you will agree with me, violence is not the answer.