You can only be intentionally obtuse. I can type slower, I guess.
1. All us white supremacists roaming the states concealed carry automatic assault ak47''s listening to nugent, rush, Glenn and Sean telling us how much we hate the negros and their president ando how much we hate that brown guy''s gubmint.
2. No shots at The Big O, Democrat congressmen etc.
3. Actual riots and social medIA being used by groups like antifa to organize only against non-leftists.
4. Lefty shoots up GOP baseball practice, apparently with hit list of the most conservative. .
This is what Trog and the rest are missing. He's trying to argue that there is "some" hate speech from the Right. I've asked he and Tibs and others to post "calls for violence" from say Fox or Breitbart or others. They come up with individuals who allude to violence. Fine, I posted a list of individuals a mile longer. They are trying to make an equivalence between Ted Nugent calling for violence and CNN or Huffington Post doing so. Apple, orange.
There are substantive differences as you refer to.
These factors make what is going on on the Left real and dangerous:
1.
Platform - some of the
major outlets are preaching violence semi-regularly now. It's going to a national audience - including to the fringe elements like our would-be assassin.
2.
Volume - the calls for violence from the Left are increasing in volume - both by individuals and by their media outlets.
3.
Action - there are those that are following the preaching - BLM, AntiFa, college students, the driver running the congressman off the road, the countless individual assaults, and now Hodgkinson.
4.
Apologists - when these acts happen, they are either justified or apologists cover for them, including the media (i.e., Wolf Blitzer - Hodgkinson was not an evil man)
There is a developing causal relationship. As I said pages ago, Trog would spend pages defending (even if indirectly) Hodgkinson's actions. And he has. He, Tibs et al. We witness this every time there's a terrorist act, a BLM incident, an AntiFa rally - they rationalize and justify the behavior somehow.
Now, one of his arguments is that we are somehow dismissing violent rhetoric from the other end. We all know it is there. But see the 4 points listed above. It's not being disseminated through a platform, with volume. There's no action by anyone on the right, and there isn't an army of apologists out there justifying or mitigating any of the action when it happens.
Apple, orange.
He's also missing the basic differences between the Left and the Right. We're not picking up weapons attempting assassinations; we're not attacking our political opponents. They are. They are acting, we are not. The comparison - there's hate speech on the Right and on the Left - fails miserably.
- Take BLM killing police officers (I mean, really, look how easily they gloss this over, like a page 9 story in their newspapers - "oh, another cop shot. Well, off to work"). You hear no outrage from the Left, just justifications, apologies, or arguments about how "we don't understand black culture."
- There's a rising tide of violence we see weekly, sometimes daily, coming from the Left.
- They cannot produce a list of weekly violent acts by Conservatives, because it doesn't exist.
- They can't produce a would-be assassin, because there hasn't been one.
- They can't list riots driven by Conservatives that led to looting, hospitalizations, or felonies because we've started no post-election riots, no Fergusons, no Baltimores.
- They can't point to Conservatives at universities and their students violently shutting down would-be Liberal speakers, because it isn't happening.
- They can't point to a billionaire on the Right who is hiring mercenaries like Soros, because it isn't happening.
- They can provide a few names, a few instances, where famous people on the Right have alluded to violence. Yet Conservatives can produce hundreds, hell maybe thousands of calls for violence from their Hollywood elites, newspaper editorials, journalists, politicians, and media outlets imploring their followers to violence against Conservatives.
Their argument of equivalence fails. It amounts to "well this one or three people made hate speech" so the Right is just like the Left. Nope, not when you consider the 4 points above. It's not even in the realm of being comparative.
