10-30-2019, 11:42 AM
(10-30-2019, 11:22 AM)hollodero Wrote: This is quite an inaccurate equivalency. This is not about an act of self-defense and the baseball chanters were not directly under attack to begin with. Also it does nothing to resolve or stop the attacks. It serves no purpose in that regard.
Also, again, I do not draw a moral equivalency between the Trump rally chanters and the baseball chanters. Sure one instance can be painted as "worse" and I'd agree with that. And also as I said, Trump sure had it coming. But for the reasons stated, I remain critical of "lock him up" chants, because I am critical of "lock xyz up" chants to begin with and think this mob rule approach to justice is to be refused under any circumstances. And until that incident, I thought the "left" seemed to agree with that.
"...but the other one did it first, or else I would NEVER have done that, because in principle I'm actually better than that" is a atrange argument to make. There's hypocrisy in it, as is in finding the one instance reprehensible and the other similar instance a perfectly fine response.
But, if we were to look at the electoral map of the stadium, the majority of the chanting was concentrated in two small, but densely populated areas behind 3rd base and the home plate. Whereas in the sparsely populated areas that covered more square footage from 3rd base stretching behind the entire outfield and 1st base and ending back at home plate there was nary a peep of chanting. So really, most of the chanting we heard doesn’t even count. Many of those chanting were illegals who weren’t registered to chant anyway.
