05-18-2022, 01:17 PM
(05-18-2022, 12:15 PM)hollodero Wrote: Don't you think that equating it to Stacey Abrams could be seen as diminshing the insurrection attempts*? The latter being more than just people saying "stolen election" (as bad as this is in either case), after all.
*Of course I don't think you're doing that, but that's just because you're no stranger.
Oh, most definitely. There's certainly a difference in degree, and I don't know any sane person who'd argue against that. That being said, questioning the integrity of elections has been labeled a "threat to our democracy". Consequently it is more than fair to call out the exact same behavior, albeit to a lesser degree, in Abrams. There's a world of difference between hitting someone in the head with a bat and kicking them in the groin. They're both a battery, just of varying degrees, and neither of them is acceptable. I don't ignore bad behavior in one person and then focus on it in another. Of course there are some, including posters here, who will immediately label this a "both sides do it" argument and then trot out a long winded and overly verbose argument as to why the greater sin overshadows the lesser to a degree that it's not even worthy of consideration. This, of course, only fuels further division and labels the person making the argument a partisan actor.