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by Khaine 1385 days ago
It wasn’t right wing activists who burnt down whole blocks in Kenosha, or in Portland where they repeatedly attacked a federal court. These people were coordinating and asking for donations and weren’t shut down.

You see people on the left constantly denigrating white men, and calling for attacks against them, the latest I saw being https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11140197/Librarian-...

So yes, to people on the right it very much feels skewed. The worst excesses on the right are blown up, and minimised or ignored on the left

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> You see people on the left constantly denigrating white men, and calling for attacks against them

Do you really face daily denigration from non-{white male} folks around you? Have you considered the possibility that you have to look for such occurences to confirm your own biases?

I don’t, but I see lots of roles advertised as female only. I see extra levels of approval required by diversity councils to promote males.

These are a direct extension of this attitude, that’s okay to treat men like shit because of history

The right wing is exclusive in its call for armed violence.

The right wing encourages the notion that the second amendment means military grade arms for every yahoo, and that this is to be used in the coming civil war to take “back” America.

Lyndsey Graham warned us of riots if Trump is indicted, and we should prevent the FBI from doing their job to reduce the risk of right wing violence.

The right wing is the exclusive purveyor of political violence, seeing as how there’s no actual radical left wing in American politics in any power holding capacity.

Calling Joe Biden “far left” as the baseline means that no one who can see the actual political spectrum takes you seriously, but it’s sufficiently compelling for Fox hosts to repeat ad nauseum

Oh ffs, in what universe is “Burn {idea} to the ground” a threat of violence?
Male librarians isn’t an idea. It’s a group of people. It is literally a call for violence