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SirTophamHatt's avatar

I am not a wigger and i don’t spend much time defending wiggers, but the framing here is just dishonest. No one is saying that the murder of Charlie Kirk is “predictive of a ‘wave of violence’”, they are saying that the OPEN CELEBRATION of his murder by large segments of the online left is indicative of a sentiment that could lead to many copycat murders. There was no similar celebration on the right following the Hortman murder (no one cared, lol) so that is not analogous in the slightest. I’m not even sure why i should bother with the rest of the article when the very beginning is founded on such a lousy straw man for a premise.

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It's a funny comparison but somewhat makes sense, given that there are more black people in the US with naturally conservative/right-wing attitudes, they just don't and won't vote Republican bc right wingers always make it so consistently and constantly clear that they don't like them and think they're below them. If it wasn't for that, there'd be more black right wingers than white right wingers.

However, I want to point out that that conservatives being characterized by having hysterical threat-detection systems when it comes to out groups, with essentially zero capacity for rational thought any time they perceive any (usually imagined and always exaggerated) out-group threat because they go into a furious emotional tail-spin...has always been a thing and is in fact pretty much their primary defining characteristic, along with liking hierarchies. They acted EXACTLY like this after 9/11, except back then it went on for years and years on end. Anyone who was even slightly critical of say invading Iraq was declared a terrorist, etc. The GOP literally renamed French Fries in federal cafeterias to Freedom Fries from 2003 to 2006 because they were so upset that France didn't want to join the Iraq war even though they were strong allies in Afghanistan and in general. They spent about 7 years straight acting like total morons who thought everyone was a terrorist, including anyone who ever voted for a Democrat in their life. It's really a shame that most millennials have no memory of this. The only difference was that at the time, it was all on Fox News and the actual GOP and right wing radio, because they weren't all online yet.

Democrats absolutely fucked up, and badly, by capitulating to BLM riots and woke cancelation mobs in general. I attribute that to basically happening because some of least serious, dumbest, statistically incompetent bleeding hearts among them -- aka young high school and college aged women and their teachers -- were some of the first people to really get into social media and as early adopters they held excessive power there. Add in a bunch of catty, envious journalists trying to make a living in NYC in a profession that has become ultra-competitive because it's disappearing, and that was fuel on the fire for ramping up hysteria and cancellation, as they were ALL on Twitter and the primary power users a decade ago. Then of course just add in that the DNC I'm fact cannot afford to alienate black voters or they'll never win again, so they're unwilling to say no or speak against them in instances where they're acting like conservatives and clearly wrong and insisting on fearful non-truths....and you get what you got. It was a big, BIG mistake, showed a lot of cowardice, and now they're living with the backlash.

Anyway I don't disagree with you, just pointing out that the current fear/tribalistic rabid anger response is not actually unusual or different than the past, it's exactly how they acted in the 2000s and eventually people got sick of it, which they will again.

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