01-22-2017, 09:20 AM
(01-22-2017, 08:59 AM)bfine32 Wrote: This is really the only issue I had with the statement and I suppose "Well they'd do it too" could be seen as mitigation. This is why I asked for examples of Trump supporters causing harm at Clinton events leading up to the Election. It's easy enough to say "They'd do it too." It becomes a little harder when asked to provide specific examples.
As to the last line. The reaction in Hollywood is funnier than the reaction in this forum.
It's not really mitigation, only pointing out that trying to claim the violence is just a liberal action is disingenuous. My saying that they'd do it too was based on statements by Trump supporters that there would be an armed insurrection if Trump did not win. It is very easy to say that the same thing would have happened were the outcome different, because of that. You can't be provided with specific examples, though, because the outcome wasn't the other way around.
And yes, the Hollywood reaction has been ridiculous.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
