[Tehchops]

I see disproportionate amount of violence/threats from right-leaning personas online. Perhaps that is a factor?

Yes, I know it's anecdotal, but the LGBTQ+ community has been the victim of an increasing number of hate crimes(confirmed by law enforcement reporting), and the rhetoric online seems to mirror this.

Free speech does not cover overt or implied violence based on sexual or gender identity.

[_-david-_]

Do you have any evidence that it is disproportionately coming from the right? I see a lot more coming from the left so it seems a bit anecdotal.

[Tehchops]

Are you saying it's more likely hate crimes are being perpetrated by people that identify as progressive?

[danaris]

Well, let's see here.

We have one "side" publicly and loudly proclaiming the same things as racist lynch mobs from the 1800s and literal Nazis.

We have another "side" publicly and loudly calling for dignity and respect for every human being.

It would seem logical to me that the burden of proof here would be on the person claiming that the latter is sending more hate and death threats than the former. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

[_-david-_]

You are clearly bias. You are taking the worst arguments from one side and the best from the other.

The NY subway shooting was perpetrated by a black supremacist. So much for dignity and respect of every human being. Of course you would say that is just a small minority and people denounce what he did. So what? He did it and you are clearly ignoring that.

Burden of proof is not on the original person making an anecdotal statement, but the person stating their anecdotal experience is different? Nice consistency.

Every side has bad people and you can't whitewash one side and claim the other side is only their bad parts if you want a fair understanding of the situation. Nobody is making extraordinary claims except you. I can do the same thing as you: one side believes in killing every cop and the other side just believes in living peacefully with everybody. This is as fair of an assessment as you made.

[jandrese]

Can you post any link to left leaning people calling for violence against LGBTQ aligned individuals?

[_-david-_]

I'm not sure I could easily find an example but there have been some lesbians who had calls of violence against them because they are a so called TERF.

I was, however, talking about general calls to violence not specifically against LGBT people. The first paragraph from the post I was replying to made no mention of LGBT. I should have quoted that part to make it more clear what exactly I was talking about. Sorry about the confusion.