4 ms·

It's a strawman. There isn't some rash of unprovoked public beatings of people because they happen to be Trump supporters.

11thEarlOfMar 6y ago
Watch the video. The first assault is mild. The student punched in the face could have knocked teeth out: https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/rising-political-tension https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/rising-political-tension Punched in the face for wearing a hat in Russian. The assailant couldn't read it, but attacked once the wearer told him the translation: https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-beaten-up-in-california-restaurant-over-his-russian-maga-hat-cops https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-beaten-up-in-california-re... And here is seven pages of a Political Violence Report, official congressional record: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190409/109266/HHRG-116-JU00-20190409-SD008.pdf https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190409/109266/HHRG... Here are three more, including an 81 year-old man: https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/02/28/maga-hat-wearing-victims-are-still-victims/ https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/02/28/maga-hat-wearing-vic... This was a serious beating, an art gallery owner: https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-city-gallery-owner-attacked-wearing-make-america/story?id=64731770 https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-city-gallery-owner-attacked-w... Citing the Berkeley assault, this guy wrote and app to help conservatives find safe places to dine out: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/11/need-safe-place-wear-your-maga-hat-new-app-will-help-conservatives-find-one/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/11/need-safe... This is attempted murder: https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-allegedly-driving-van-gop-registration-tent/story?id=68859140 https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-allegedly-driving-van...
- lifeformed 6y ago
  I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but it's not new or significant. It isn't some unique phenomenon to this time and this political orientation. And people downvoted that comment not because they support political violence, but because centrism is perceived as a cop-out, as just an implicit support for the status quo.
  - 11thEarlOfMar 6y ago
    Regarding the 7 page listing of more than 200 various acts of political violence, including attempted murder, against conservative politicians; I searched for the same document produced during the Obama administration and could not find one. From that I infer that during his administration, neither conservative nor liberal politicians saw political violence as enough of a concern to list it and enter into the permanent record of the United States Congress. Political violence and oppression was one of the primary motivators for the United States to seek independence from England. We are going backwards.

11thEarlOfMar 6y ago

Watch the video. The first assault is mild. The student punched in the face could have knocked teeth out: https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/rising-political-tension https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/rising-political-tension Punched in the face for wearing a hat in Russian. The assailant couldn't read it, but attacked once the wearer told him the translation: https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-beaten-up-in-california-restaurant-over-his-russian-maga-hat-cops https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-beaten-up-in-california-re... And here is seven pages of a Political Violence Report, official congressional record: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190409/109266/HHRG-116-JU00-20190409-SD008.pdf https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190409/109266/HHRG... Here are three more, including an 81 year-old man: https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/02/28/maga-hat-wearing-victims-are-still-victims/ https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/02/28/maga-hat-wearing-vic... This was a serious beating, an art gallery owner: https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-city-gallery-owner-attacked-wearing-make-america/story?id=64731770 https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-city-gallery-owner-attacked-w... Citing the Berkeley assault, this guy wrote and app to help conservatives find safe places to dine out: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/11/need-safe-place-wear-your-maga-hat-new-app-will-help-conservatives-find-one/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/11/need-safe... This is attempted murder: https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-allegedly-driving-van-gop-registration-tent/story?id=68859140 https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-allegedly-driving-van...

lifeformed 6y ago
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but it's not new or significant. It isn't some unique phenomenon to this time and this political orientation. And people downvoted that comment not because they support political violence, but because centrism is perceived as a cop-out, as just an implicit support for the status quo.
- 11thEarlOfMar 6y ago
  Regarding the 7 page listing of more than 200 various acts of political violence, including attempted murder, against conservative politicians; I searched for the same document produced during the Obama administration and could not find one. From that I infer that during his administration, neither conservative nor liberal politicians saw political violence as enough of a concern to list it and enter into the permanent record of the United States Congress. Political violence and oppression was one of the primary motivators for the United States to seek independence from England. We are going backwards.