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Show me one speech where anyone of the Liberals you speak of talked about Armed revolution or the killing of law enforcement and then you will have a point.
Show me one speech where a Conservative speaker actually suggested we go out and start an armed revolution or kill LEO's and then you will have a point.......
In 2011 a Lakewood NJ police officer was shot to
death in his car. There were no protestors, no controversial statements from the
Mayor of Lakewood, no visit from Al Sharpton beforehand.
Oh no, not letting you off that easy, sorry. The shooter in NYC actually expressed that his motive was the outrage over the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Comments by the POTUS, the Mayor, the AG, Sharpton, and a host of others only served to foster that outrage. So, if comments by Conservative pundits can be blamed for the actions of lunatics, why is it different when it's Liberal commentary?
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It is inspired by the way police and courts treat civilians nationwide.
You mean it's inspired by the perception of how police and courts treat civilians nationwide, regardless of whether or not perception = reality
Why is Conservative rhetoric a problem, but Liberal rhetoric is not? Why the change of heart? Or is it just hypocrisy?
It is the latest episode in the ongoing saga of double standards, the bread and butter of American politics, where the virtue of an action depend not on whether the action was virtuous, but whether you like the person doing it or not. If it sounds crazy it's because it is.
As for the shooters, dangerous lunatics will keep being dangerous lunatics no matter what political rhetoric abounds.
So, Conservative Rhetoric Breeds Deranged Lunatics, But Liberal Rhetoric Doesn't?
Rhetoric is neither good or healthy for either side. And its not good for anyone to go totally off the rails, left or right, one way or the other. Extreme radical behavior either way is unhealthy mentally and can lead to problems.
Just trying to get a grasp on the double-standard employed by our resident Liberals here. Let's think back to when Jared Loughner shot Az. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Conservative rhetoric was blamed, including that of Sarah Palin where "crosshairs" were superimposed on a map of the Congresswoman's district....
Or how about an incident that happened in Las Vegas this year and was in fact very similar to what happened in NYC this weekend. A man shot two officers, eating their lunch, and then proceeded to a nearby Wal-Mart where he declared the start of his own personal "revolution" before killing himself. Within hours of the story breaking, our Liberal friends on here speculated that "he was probably a Right wing nut job".... Then, after it was revealed that the shooter had spent time on the Cliven Bundy ranch when that whole mess was going on, our Liberal friends REALLY had a hay day with it.
But now that the shoe is squarely on the other foot, and we have a clear cut case of a deranged lunatic killing two cops who, according to his Twitter postings, obviously subscribed to leftist rhetoric over the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, they're suddenly singing a different tune. Now they say there's no WAY you can blame biased rhetoric from Rev. Sharpton or Jessie Jackson for what this nut did. There's no WAY you can blame comments from the POTUS, the AG and even the mayor of NYC that basically call out cops as being biased and racist. There's no WAY you can blame protestors who shout a demand for dead cops now, for what this despicable killer did.
Why is Conservative rhetoric a problem, but Liberal rhetoric is not? Why the change of heart? Or is it just hypocrisy?
Anything far right or far left is toxic. I wish they would all go away.
We used to think the far right wasn't as "dangerous" until Donald Trump /QAnon came along which led to January 6. Neither side is innocent.
Far lefties have always been agitators IMO. But rarely did people die, unlike January 6. A day that will cause me to look at far rights very differently for a long time.
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