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Okay I'm a bit more awake.
I think your post was mistimed.
I think what you are saying is "left can be mean and hateful too", which in the context of the left complaining about how mean the right are when it comes to death threats / personal hate against Clinton or Obama, sure, those things are more or less equivalent. Neither side has "moral high ground" and I still feel like that kind of hate is irrelevant to whatever the actual political issues are.
Unfortunately in current context, it can appear that what you are saying is "the left can be mean and hateful too, therefore those who oppose literal white supremacy immediately lose their moral high ground". I don't think that can be what you mean.
Opposing white supremacy is not a left/right issue.
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I think what you are saying is "left can be mean and hateful too", which in the context of the left complaining about how mean the right are when it comes to death threats / personal hate against Clinton or Obama, sure, those things are more or less equivalent. Neither side has "moral high ground" and I still feel like that kind of hate is irrelevant to whatever the actual political issues are.
This. My post was about the linking of the CNN train image here and whether anybody here sees, shares, discusses or even distances themselves from any of the extreme examples provided when it's aimed at Trump, at Trump's supporters. If anyone can point me quite to where I legitimised white supremacy and the mowing down of people protesting against Nazis, racists and fascists by some far-right cunt in a Dodge, then I'll wait.
Once again, I said - and still think - the cartoon was both in bad taste and appallingly timed. Perhaps my post was badly timed too, however, it's spectacular that questioning if people feel the same anger towards those who write about and symbolise killing the guy that they do when he Tweets about 'taking down' news corporations could suddenly align me with white supremacy...
I don't think that can be what you mean.
...and you would be correct.Opposing white supremacy is not a left/right issue.
This.
FujiRacer
Wise choice. Stay away, it's a cesspit.
A single forum thread where much of the users appear to be against the guy is probably a bad place for gaining the whole picture. Sure, there are a million reasons to think the guy's an awful person, and absolutely a bad leader - which I think he is - but some balance is needed and I rarely tend to see the left's often questionable and extreme actions discussed and held to account in establishment media, or even here, as much as I do the right's. That is a good point you make when put into that context, but the moment one side resorts to the sorts of things they denigrate their opponent for, on anyone, they lose the moral high ground.
Also a good point, you reminded me of that image. Though, to be fair, the Medusa/Perseus mock-up didn't have Hillary's head covered in 'blood'...