Ed Dueling protests spark state of emergency in Virginia.

[Emily's Cat]

I've encountered plenty of conservatives who sincerely believe that people who don't tolerate white supremacists are just as bad as white supremacists.

I've seen much of the same.

I haven't, although I've seen plenty of liberals make substantially the same claim.

What I've seen is lots of conscientious people who value principles and sincerely believe that one's beliefs should never be a justification for depriving that person of their civil liberties, no matter how odious those beliefs are to others.

 

[Cl1mh4224rd]

Good. You understand that calls for violence are calls for violence.

Your reading comprehensions seems to be (deliberately, I suspect) infantile.

 

[Meadmaker]

I haven't, although I've seen plenty of liberals make substantially the same claim.

What I've seen is lots of conscientious people who value principles and sincerely believe that one's beliefs should never be a justification for depriving that person of their civil liberties, no matter how odious those beliefs are to others.

I've seen both liberals and conservatives make similar claims, but I agree with the second paragraph above.

 

[ponderingturtle]

I haven't, although I've seen plenty of liberals make substantially the same claim.

What I've seen is lots of conscientious people who value principles and sincerely believe that one's beliefs should never be a justification for depriving that person of their civil liberties, no matter how odious those beliefs are to others.

But is it ok to call nazis deplorable yet as opposed to a year ago when calling nazis deplorable was hugely offensive?

 

[ponderingturtle]

More conservatives and cops show their true feelings about the acceptability of running down protestors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/12/all-lives-splatter-sheriffs-office-apologizes-for-facebook-post-of-car-hitting-protesters/?utm_term=.39b0903c7df9

At least they are not punching people, that would be totally unacceptable. Crushing them under cars is just funny.

 

[quadraginta]

More conservatives and cops show their true feelings about the acceptability of running down protestors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ar-hitting-protesters/?utm_term=.39b0903c7df9

At least they are not punching people, that would be totally unacceptable. Crushing them under cars is just funny.

Just a mistake. No harm intended. (Reminiscent of banana peels in trees?)

Others downplayed the post as an accident that was getting blown out of proportion.
“My god people, it was an accident. I know I’m far from perfect. The next time you error I hope you get publicity ridiculed,” another Facebook user wrote. “Do you truly believe the county or the employee involved would purposely do this. Put on your grown up cloths, take it for what it is and move on. Stop being butt hurt at every opportunity. Our country has bigger issues than a misplaced post.”

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And the totally innocent poster of this mistake was 'quick to take responsibility' ...

“I was on my personal page, went to share….must have hit share to a page you manage rather than just the share….I didn’t see that I had done this until I got a phone call — it was meant to be shared with a cousin of mine….now I’m trying to figure out how to unlink my personal and work facebook pages….so it will never happen again,” the county account wrote in a reply to a Facebook user.

Apparently the idea that it might be no less offensive just because it was being shared between friends didn't occur to them.

It is fascinating to see the instinct some people have to jump in to explain this sort of thing away as perfectly harmless. "They didn't mean anything by it." "Just a joke."

The idea that what was said might have actually been what was meant is apparently (always?) just too ridiculous to contemplate.



And ever questioning their sincerity at all is just too ridiculous, as well.

 

[CaptainHowdy]

Your reading comprehensions seems to be (deliberately, I suspect) infantile.

Militant consistency is what it is called. Equal justice under the law. No double standards. That sort of thing.

 

[Checkmite]

DeAndre Harris, the black man who was brutally beaten by white supremacists at the Charlottesville rally and then charged with assault for hitting another white supremacist with a flashlight, has been acquitted by a judge.

 

[kookbreaker]

Bump.

Federal charges filed against 4 at Charlottesville over a year after the events.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...bb3813de4b00fe9f4fac630?utm_source=reddit.com