02-02-2017, 11:41 AM
(02-02-2017, 11:08 AM)SomeGuy Wrote: Speech, riot, they're basically the same thing, right? Both sides equally at fault?
No. Last page I compared the incident to OKC and the Black / Blue Lives Matter spirals of violence. I take the changes in scale and style of spirals of violence seriously. Yiannopoulos is all talk. He wasn't on my radar at all. I was vaguely aware that folks like that are big in the Alt Right, but don't follow that sort of thing in detail.
The difference between rhetoric and violence is a big deal for me. If you're reading my stuff at all, you should know I feel that way.
At the same time the Nihilist Moron is right too. You don't give attention whores and trolls the attention they crave. That can be applied both ways.
There's more than one angle to look at this stuff from. I'm seeing a lot of 'we are saints while the other guys are sinners' partisan (expletive deleted). There's enough of that. Too much. If I try to go to a little more depth, it seems the extreme partisans want to bring it back to pure partisanship. Not surprising, but not interesting to me.
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