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Originally Posted by Casper in Dallas
Is the Far Right wrong to intentionally try to trigger the Far Left act out, You Betcha.
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(sigh)
And another blame-the-speaker-for-the-protesters'-violence dupe speaks out.
Giving a speech favoring slavery to a groups of people who were recently freed from slavery, is "triggering" them.
Giving a speech smearing and castigating Jews to a group of Jews that recently escaped the Holocaust and who lost relatives in it, is "triggering" them.
Giving a speech describing conservative viewpoints, before a group of people who have actually benefitted from conservatism (where did their tuition money come from? Their rent? Their computers?) is NOT "triggering" them.
If anything, the latter group has been "triggered" by lies from other leftists imagining the "eeeevilness" of conservatism when none exists.
Is it wrong for
any of those groups to commit violence in response to the speaker they heard? Yes, completely wrong.
Can the speakers be held at least partly at fault for the wrong reactions of the audience?
In the first two cases (slavery, massacring Jews), yes, they can be held partly responsible. Because they are advocating things that are bad and horribly wrong. Even if it's only people in the audience that actually broke things and assaulted people. In the third case (describing benefits of conservatism), no, the speaker absolutely cannot.
The fact is, there is nothing wrong, or bad, or offensive about the things Ben Shapiro talked about. People who think there are, are simply wrong, and appallingly ignorant to boot. And Shapiro isn't the least bit responsible for their stupidity, or the violence they cause as a result of their own stupidity
But you'd never know that from the coverage in most media. Most of them are announcing possible riots due to the conservative speaker showing up, or tallying the cost of security necessitated by the conservative speaker's visit.
Those riots are due EXCLUSIVELY to the empty-headed, mindless violence of the audience, which Shapiro had nothing to do with. And the university and the city are expending all that money, not to protect people from Shapiro, but to protect people from the mindless leftist crybabies throwing temper tantrums.
If not for the deluded rage and destruction by the nutcases burning and breaking things, Shapiro's speech would cause no more trouble than someone pointing out that the sky is blue.
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