Fear of the Left . . .

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[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Ceeboo,

You're shifting the goalposts from fearing the Left due to intimidation and violence to their abuse of the 1st Amendment. So, I take it you're relatively nonplussed by extremist Rightists because they're not actively trying to suppress our 1st Amendment rights? Is that correct?

- Doc

[_EAllusion]

It was only a few days ago that the Trump admin dropped the last of its cases involving a failed effort to use highly dubious legal arguments to effectively make public protest against the admin a potential felony offense. Several Republican legislatures successfully passed legislation that would make it effectively legal to run over protesters with your car.

[_EAllusion]

It doesn't impact it at all. I completely understand that there have been (and are) radical fringe groups that are affiliated on the political right with many of the groups discussed in the link and/or the graphs it showed (Nazi skin heads, whiter supremacists, Tim McVey types, etc) but these radical fringe groups are in no way shape or form an accurate representation of the millions and millions and millions of American citizens that call themselves Republican/Conservative. These are the exceptions, not the rule.

Yeah, it only includes fringe figures like the president of the United States and many of his closest advisers and allies in Congress. Has it ever occurred to you why a radical white supremacist like Ajax, whose very ideas in this thread you are posting on, is such an over-the-moon fan of current Republicanism?

[_Xenophon]

And those countless posts criticizing Democrats, liberalism, and Obama specifically were kayfabe?

Yeah but who is the heel and who is the face?

[_EAllusion]

So a pseudo threat everyone knows was not serious is violence but my link to a 91 year old person being horribly beaten for just being a Latino is not?

You think the black chick who beat the man with a brick was a right-winger?

- Doc

It's possible, but I think that's the wrong way to look at this. Much like a single hot day or a single heat wave cannot be specifically attributed to global warming, you cannot say a single attack on a elderly latino man with a brick with the assailant shouting "go back to your country" is the result of stoking a culture of violent xenophobia. But we also know that global warming makes it more likely for hot days to occur and more likely for heat waves to happen. Much in the same way, the alt-right's rather pervasive stoking of anti-immigration and anti-latino sentiment with violent, dehumanizing undertones almost certainly makes it more likely for these type of crimes to occur. It's stochastic violence. I'm not sure if the think Themis used mentioned this or not, but this specific attack occurs in the context of a very large measurable increase in attacks against latinos over the past couple of years.

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[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Ea,

Why is it always the White Man's fault with you? Self-loathing aside, there's been a long and mistrustful history rife with violence between Blacks and Mexicans in California. Then again that's the White Man's fault, too. Amirite or amirite?

- Doc

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Ceeboo,

I've read your OP multiple times. When you copypasta something in the fashion you did you implicitly state you agree with its contents. Did YOU read your own OP because it appears you're not familiar with it.

- Doc

[_Maksutov]

Ceeboo is right to be afraid of big government. But big government comes in all ideologies.