He said he condemned the violence, what do you want from him?
It's milk-toast. He condemns 'the hate' but won't say what it is. He wants to stop 'the violence' but won't say whose violence it is. He sees the MAGA hats in the rally and realizes that he's gotta pick his words carefully, since he's got voters in there. That's what people are pissed about.
Stop asking people to jump through hoops to satisfy you, that's bullstuff man.
He's a public official. That's literally his job. He works for me and everyone else who lives here.
And that's what it should really boil down to: keeping your protests and demonstrations peaceful, and condemning violence. The protest was legal and nonviolent until it became violent, that's a fact. Them being neo-national socialists or white supremacists doesn't make that any less true. Speech is not violence. Protesting is not inherently violent.
I agree with what you're saying here, but there's a double-standard. Right around the time of the murders of Freddie Gray and Philando Castile, the right-wing mantra was that Black Lives Matter is a
dangerous ideology because of the fact that a select number of their supporters chose riots and violence as a means of protest. When Neo-national socialists started to come out in force after the election, the mantra was that they were 'harmless' because they weren't violently protesting.
Now, we've seen violence at the hands of white supremacists, but no equivalent call to 'label them as a terrorist organization' or laws to legally-mandate that they get mowed down for protesting on streets. That's the problem I'm seeing. We've been saying so far that the mitigating factor here is the use of violent protest, but there haven't been equitable responses to two different violent protests.
I don't support violent protest, and I think that anyone who burns cop cars or storefronts to settle their disputes in a democratic society is an starfish. But anyone who is quicker to label Black Lives Matter as terrorists, versus car-murdering Neo-national socialists, is an starfish on a whole other order of magnitude. Because that represents implicit support of their ideology, and that's just forgeted up.
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