The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(02-03-2020, 12:29 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I don't advocate violence. Personally, I view it as a last resort and only proper when used for defense and war. I don't ignore the possibility of it being used improperly nor reject the right to use it altogether either. I've haven't been arrested for a crime or investigated for a crime either. I've had a few speeding tickets and a couple minor citations but that's it. 

I'd suggest that you reevaluate and remove the KKK, Neo Nazi's and racists from the Republican side. I've had encounters with racists on your side who aren't white. Hint..they don't like you anymore than me and don't like any of there own race who don't share the racist beliefs either. Hint...Calling me a racist and blaming me for racism isn't going to change their racist beliefs pertaining to white people in general. The same goes for the KKK and the Neo Nazies and other white supremacists out there. What's cool, the non racist American population substantially outnumbers them all these days.

Dude, I don't cry demoziation or use the term against you like you do with me or accuse you of doing it a lot either. It would be nice if you were able to recognize and  admit you did something bad and say your sorry instead of lying to me and denying that you did anything wrong. It would be nice but it doesn't seem to be in your nature these days. You're not alone, the liberal side has a major problem with it these days.

I’ve also had a few traffic citations, so I figure we’re in about the same place there.

The social justice warriors may have got a bit aggressive in the late Obama years.  I never encountered it, and the long history of racism made me not eager to join that fight.  Over the long long term, minorities have had to endure far worse.  I remained out of it.  Trump seems to be more aggressive and in part is responsible for the resurgence of the KKK and Neo Nazi, and far less directly in the Antifa response.  I don’t see anyone here big into that scene.  I would as soon it disappeared both ways.  

Still, wishing does not make it so.  Trump and some Republicans encourage or use racism and racists.  Some progressives fight it.  The Southern Strategy is real.  That does not mean all Republicans are engaged in it, or all progressives in physically fighting it, bit it does exist.  Racism is a part of the struggle between the two sides, like it or not.  The better of the conservatives will sincerely repudiate it, and I would wish them well in the repudiation.   Those who will not acknowledge that it is there are part of the problem.

The trouble I had were with your persistent style, the common threats of violence, the weirdly defined terms, etc.  My calling you on them was the only way I could see of countering them.  My calling you on these problems will go away when the behaviors stop.  I can even give you benefit of the doubt for a bit.  

I don’t see it as anything to do with sides.