You realize that hate crimes have gone up the past few years? The far right are committing crimes, and Ben Shapiro's rhetoric (along with other far right commentators) is not helping.
You're tying to equivocate throwing a milkshake at a politician with actual violence.
> You realize that hate crimes have gone up the past few years?
Um. You do realize that politifact article ends with "reported incidents are going up, total incidents are going down", right?
Here:
> Analyses of the National Crime Victimization Survey indicated that the majority of crime victimizations were not reported to the police from 2009 to 2014. Reported victimizations have picked up, and unreported incidents have went down since 2015, after a significant drop in both categories in 2014.
And their "Share The Facts" summary: "Only for reported crimes"
Finally, throwing milkshakes, just like throwing rotten fruit, is violence - mild violence, but still a very different thing than speech.
> Finally, throwing milkshakes, just like throwing rotten fruit, is violence - mild violence, but still a very different thing than speech.
It's not limited to milkshakes. Lets apply some symmetry, say that the hateful rhetoric from the left has fanned Islamic attacks [1], or is what caused two black teens pouring gasoline on a white 13-year old, saying "This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy." as they set him on fire [2].
Does "seems to have come up" mean he amended his statement after recovering from the fire damage to his lungs? I wasn't able to find any information on this.
You're tying to equivocate throwing a milkshake at a politician with actual violence.
>https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/apr/03...