09-30-2020, 01:12 PM
(09-30-2020, 11:10 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I understand why you would believe this if you live in a bubble of far right media, but the reality is it's not nearly as pervasive as the Hodge Twins or Tucker want you to think it is.
This is a patently unfair statement to make. Whether it's "pervasive" or not, the undeniable fact is that far left groups have been engaging in routine acts or looting, arson, and rioting over the past several months. Attempts to deflect that away to other groups is disingenuous at best.
Quote:It also goes against the FBI and DHS who say that the vast, vast majority of domestic terrorism is from right wing groups.
Only because they don't count rioting, looting and arson as domestic terror. Also, the study, which is mischaracterized on this board as a matter of routine, states that far right groups are the greater "lethal threat". This is rather key as it omits slews of lesser crimes, you know the types of crimes engaged in on a daily basis in a city like Portland. Even this "lethal threat" accounts for far less deaths per year, at its peak, than occurs in any given week in the city of Chicago. Does this mean we should be unconcerned by far right domestic terrorism? Absolutely not. It also does not mean that far right domestic terrorism means we should ignore far left violence and criminal conduct, especially when such conduct is far more frequent of late. Sunset is absolutely correct and answering him with "whatabout" is poor form.
Quote:But even if that were true, it's not an excuse to refuse to denounce white supremacy. You don't tell white supremacists to be on "stand by" to fight the anti-racist protestors.
Completely agreed, although the term "white supremacist" gets thrown around with an ease that I find disturbing.
