> I think that philosophy took a big hit when during a pretty bog-standard protest / counter-protest someone stabbed the left wing protesters in the back (or, m

> I think that philosophy took a big hit when during a pretty bog-standard protest / counter-protest someone stabbed the left wing protesters in the back (or, more accurately, drove a car into them from behind). Lets not pretend that "the left" only started using violence to silence dissenting voices until after Charlottesville. Earlier that year, there were riots over Milo Yiannopoulos being invited to speak at Stanford. And then a few months prior, there were mass riots at the Trump Innaguration (before he'd even done anything). Its disingenuous to pretend this isn't a "both sides" problem based on issues of hyper-partisanship of the US over the past 10 (or more) years. I think one way for us to put this genie back in the bottle is firstly, for people to stop trying to place partisan blame, and instead say this is an "extremist" problem, and actually work in good faith to try and reconsile. Anything less is doomed to failure. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Berkeley_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Berkeley_protests [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/21/trump-inauguration-protests-acquittals https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/21/trump-inaugura... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMN