> Ah, there's the "they're only joking" trope we know and love. It's not like that. I don't want to trivialize the death of the girl in Charlotte either, it's

> Ah, there's the "they're only joking" trope we know and love. It's not like that. I don't want to trivialize the death of the girl in Charlotte either, it's a domestic terror incident. There's a constant background hum of political violent extremism throughout Europe and America. The key indicator for which species is ascendant is whether the popular media narrative is leaning one way or the other. The validation of these group's concerns seem to give them the entitlement they need to turn rhetoric into activity. There's already been an attempt on one Congressman's life so imagine what will happen if something similar succeeds. > I know where this is going. I say "Oh, but communists aren't as bad as Nazis, that would never happen" and you bring up that wikipedia page showing that more people died under communism than nazism and we all mark you down as a "whataboutism" sympathiser and the world is a little bit shittier. I see you've been here before. We can always hold a truce and declare both groups unworthy. >> Have you any idea how many protests feature the flag with the hammer & sickle? > Oh, there's the whataboutism. It does bug me. One gets consternation. The other "meh".