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All that may well be true [I am not familiar with Jacobin or Breitbart] but that by itself does not nullify the posted article. Smells ad hominem. > History is

• ncmncm 4y ago
  Probably just because the Jacobins got blamed for excesses of the French Revolution. But the Jacobin leadership of the time went down right behind the royals.
• AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  > > History is clear that this is equivalent to calling for extrajudicial killing of people > I dont follow. What's the equivalence. I'm not saying that anm89 was right to reject the article based on the source, but what they were saying here was, I thought, pretty clear. People who have property will often defend that property against extrajudicial taking (that is, theft). To take their property then means physical force against them. If you're going to succeed in taking it, that often will require killing them. And, historically, the mob has gone from "take their property" to "kill them" somewhat regularly.
  • ncmncm 4y ago
    If we're keeping score, takings by the "haves" from the "have nots", violently where opposed, happen millions of times every day. Events where "have nots" take significantly from "haves", violent or no, are rare enough to be noted in history books.
    • srean 4y ago
      Good point.