ZanarkandAbesFan
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ZanarkandAbesFan
13hr ago
Well that's tough for the Qataris then. If you're going to fund proxies to try to militarily destroy another nation, that nation might decide they don't want to play by your particular rules of engagement.
I don't know what the situation was like for you growing up, but my sense is that there's currently a clear asymmetry. I believe you if you say that individual right-wingers said those sorts of things around you, but the difference as far as I see is that you have close to entire mainstream platforms like reddit and branches of academia that openly celebrate things like this in a way there's no real right-wing equivalent for.
IME the biggest difference is that when there's left-wing political violence, normie liberals will usually say "that's terrible"
It's meaningless for 80% of liberals to say "that's terrible" when they refuse to disassociate from the 20% who say "that's great!" and when that latter group has outsize influence in left-wing politics.
and when there's right-wing political violence, normie conservatives will split into thirds along the lines of "it's good, actually", blaming the left, and just pretending it didn't happen.
Do you have evidence of this? I don't live in the US so my exposure to American media is limited, but I can't think of any non-fringe right-wing group that celebrates political violence on the right. You'd have to go to really marginal groups with tiny numbers like white supremacist or incel forums. There are multiple often-violent groups often have the tacit if not explicit support of much of the American left: Antifa, the Punch A Terf crowd, the pro-Hamas people, the Defund the police contingent, BLM etc.
One difference is that it seems to be acceptable among much broader swathes of the left to celebrate violence against the outgroup it is on the right. Look at how many people expressed admiration for Luigi Mangione, for example. It doesn't seem unreasonable to suggest that the left has far more of a problem with tacitly supporting violence than the right.
ZanarkandAbesFan
1d ago
It's usually pretty similar regardless of the country, although the minor variations are interesting (three of the suggestions for "Do French women" are questions about what they wear, while three of them for "Do German women" are about where they shave). The exception was trying the above with Welsh women, where autocomplete comes up with somewhat less expected results (the two that caught my eye were "can welsh women's teams play in england" and "where do welsh women go to prison").
ZanarkandAbesFan
1d ago
I've never followed the young conservative influencers much, but Kirk always seemed like the moderate, respectable sort -- it's wild that he would be the victim of political violence and not someone like Fuentes.
Fuentes isn't getting invited to speak at large public events.
ZanarkandAbesFan
1d ago
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TIL
ZanarkandAbesFan
1d ago
It's still imperfect, because the hazard of drugs isn't just that they can kill you, but that they can ruin your life and the lives of people around you long before you die.
The article is paywalled. Nevertheless, I'm willing to concede this particular topic may not be as simple as I thought it was.
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