02-02-2017, 03:01 PM
(02-02-2017, 11:41 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:I assume that you are aware that rhetoric can easily turn into violence. I assume that you are aware that rhetoric can also be used to insight violence. Do blues (the Democrats in general) have the ability to boldly confront/staunchly turn against the improper use of rhetoric that's viewed as being politically associated with them, so to speak. At what point does the Democratic party stop being viewed by Americans as being a party of vote whores/ white hate merchants and stop using our federal funds as a means to pacify dangerous/radical groups within their social ranks?(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.
