09-27-2017, 12:22 PM
(09-27-2017, 12:14 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Of course it is.
There were a number of posters on this forum that blamed peaceful protesters for making the movement of neo-fascist bigots more important by paying attention to them and counter-protesting them. This idea of blaming those paying attention to the demonstrations for the rise of the movement was merely what I was mimicking in response to Vlad's post blaming Kaepernick for starting the controversy. Applying the same logic laid out by those individuals that blamed counter-protesters against the bigots for inflating their cause, we can lay the blame at Trump's feet for doing the same.
That is not a deflection, it is not irrelevant. It is the exact same logic espoused from one situation and being applied to another.