More "largely peaceful" Portland protests

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(08-23-2020, 09:03 PM)Dill Wrote: I didn't disagree with the bolded.

I just noted that more people are personally responsible for rioting under the Trump presidency than were personally responsible for rioting under the Obama presidency, which did not see widespread civil unrest and protests in every major city and continuing for months, though it certainly saw some in Baltimore, Ferguson and Oakland.

So no one is suggesting anyone knock a few months off jail time because Trump was president.

Someone inclined to hypothesize that "the left reacts to the other side being in power much more violently than the right," would want to explain when "the left" has ever been in power in the US, and in this case why it waited until May of 2020 of the Trump presidency to react. A good hypothesis in this case would also explain why other more direct and apparent causes should be ruled out, causes that appear to operate no matter which "side" is in power.     

Then we have the "good people on both sides" argument which melds into "Yes, they are a self avowed violent right wing group that calls for the death of anyone that opposes them (my proof that will not be linked again)...but maybe they didn't start it" which acts to absolve one group from their "personal responsibility" for their actions.

I understand their "right" to exist but I don't have to like it or try to pretend that they are they to peacefully protest vs being there to cause trouble and start violence that will then be used to attack the entire movement and the people who ARE peacefully protesting.