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Hi, hi. Not so fun anymore when the insinuating questions are aimed at yourself is it? My main argument with you is that the whole business of "why hasn't X come forward and condemned Y yet?" is a shit of kind rhetoric, almost always used to cast aspersions rather than raise a civilised debate. To your credit you did say "it's a genuine question", but I don't buy it.
As far as this thread is concerned we did have this muppet a while back. I reported him in the moderators thread, hoping to have him banned. @velocio challenged him, suggesting he reconsider, but didn't ban. In hindsight I think we should have reacted a bit more harshly, but then there is the whole thing of not feeding a troll.
I don't recall anyone linking to any death threat tweets, and if I remember correctly the capitation photo was condemned mildly. (But perhaps I am confusing this with another forum.) Personally, I am in split minds about Snoop Dogg shooting a Trump themed clown, as to me it's a clown that reminds you of Trump, not Trump himself. Similar to how Ali G, when he quoted Snoop Dogg lyrics, was a clown taking the piss out of Snoop's misogyny, but not (as some suggested) a straight up racist caricature.Lastly, as much as I hate to agree with you on anything, I share your concern about JK Rowling being elevated to some kind of sage. My parents generation reached for Focuault and Baudrillard when sorting out the problems of their day, we are excitedly waiting for the next 144 character soundbite from a children's book writer.
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Oh I condemn it, I think it's awful...as does basically the entire thread. You obviously - or conveniently, both fit - missed the part where I also condemned the CNN train thing and its timing at the very start of my post. Great, engaging reply though, failing to add anything of any worth or acknowledge any of my examples of reciprocated media extremism and imagery (incidentally not one of which you could say a bad word about, before resorting to the deflection, I noticed)
What isn't so prevalent is the same hysteria when the radical left indeed call for him to be killed, when regular depictions of his death are allowed to circulate among media, when 'anti-hate' groups like ANTIFA resort to violence and rioting against anyone and anything they perceive to challenge their actions or their views, when screaming into someone's face constitutes 'discussion', when JK Rowling recently used her platform to flat-out lie about Trump ignoring a disabled child to whip up anger, yet the kid's own mother had to intervene to clarify to her that situation simply didn't happen and was verified by camera footage...
It's a bit rich when one side that gets torn apart and scrutinised so vigorously, is so by an opposing side that is often, itself, just as awful and violent and deceptive, but which postures as the side against anger, against violence, against division and all for tolerance.