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That is in exceptionally poor taste.
You're glowing.
Historically, that kind of thing would have likely resulted in some form of mob event - tarring and feathering the proprietor, smashing of the saloon, etc. But we live in more temperate, and less small-d "democratic" times...
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People do these things because they believe they will be popular with those around them.
People do these things because they
believe theywill be popular with those around them.To make my position clear, I think this in completely absolutely no way justifies political violence against the left. But the (from my point of view) typical leftist can be incredibly vicious even when the person who was killed wasn't someone who advocated that gun deaths are worth it if it meant protecting the second amendment.
And probably most people (including the typical leftist) feels weird about this on some level, but there's varying levels, like "I probably shouldn't say this, but my friends will get a kick out of it", "I probably shouldn't say this, but other people are doing it so I guess it's okay", "I probably shouldn't say this, but he did have it coming", etc.
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Half the Internet is glowing today. Practically every commentator is just barely stopping himself writing an explicit call to put all the leftists against a wall. The "glowing" bit is really part of my point: embedded in the term is a blanket and universal taboo on political violence, and it's not obvious to me that there ought to be such a taboo.
Yeah, the FBI department that deals with this is gonna be working overtime for a while.
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Practically every commenter where? If you're looking at your Twitter FYP that's specifically tailored to you personally to maximize your engagement, which in practice tends to cash out as "that which makes you personally angry or afraid".
Do we even know yet that the shooter was a leftist rather than a random crazy person with no coherent ideology?
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