Right Wing Violence - Media not accountable

[_ajax18]

[_Res Ipsa]

How many murderers say they were inspired by Anderson Cooper?

[_Res Ipsa]

Which TV news personality inspired these killings.

[_honorentheos]

Hey ajax,

Religiously inspired violence is not synonymous with leftwing terrorism. Politically speaking, it's usually right wing, and was in the case of the Ft. Hood shooter. Just because you think there is a holy war on between Christianity and Islam doesn't make the fact people who choose differently framed conservative causes than you do to justify their violent acts aren't doing from the right side of the political spectrum.

[_honorentheos]

Maybe this will help you in your google image searches:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum

[_Kevin Graham]

Ajax's pedantic meme fest just goes to further the point.

I actually thought, OK, I probably missed a few examples of Left wing murderers killing people simply because they're conservative, or a whacko claiming he was inspired by something someone on CNN said. I assumed maybe at least a few of them MUST exist and I just wasn't paying any attention at the time. But the more I look, the more I realize there are really no parallel examples.

But yeah, the Left is the side that spawns true violence, right?

[_Kevin Graham]

Religiously inspired violence is not synonymous with leftwing terrorism. Politically speaking, it's usually right wing, and was in the case of the Ft. Hood shooter. Just because you think there is a holy war on between Christianity and Islam doesn't make the fact people who choose differently framed conservative causes than you do to justify their violent acts aren't doing from the right side of the political spectrum.

Indeed, Islamic terrorism has more in common with the religious Right in America. They both believe murder is OK if God says so, and they both believe God says so based on certain scriptures. For instance, they've both called for homosexuals to be killed. Islam also doesn't believe in equal rights for women. How the “F” is that Leftist?

Islam's immature sense of human rights human rights is far behind the progressive left's but not so much behind the religious Right's.

[_ajax18]

Hey ajax,

Religiously inspired violence is not synonymous with leftwing terrorism. Politically speaking, it's usually right wing, and was in the case of the Ft. Hood shooter. Just because you think there is a holy war on between Christianity and Islam doesn't make the fact people who choose differently framed conservative causes than you do to justify their violent acts aren't doing from the right side of the political spectrum.

Why was Obama so intent on classifying this as workplace violence rather than as a terorrist act? Why were we not even allowed to call it a radical Islamic terrorist attack? Maybe because he couldn't bear the thought of offending Valerie Jarrett? It was Texas so the people he killed were probably Republicans anyway. The left clearly sympathizes with violent and radical Islamic terrorism.

[_honorentheos]

There are and have been in history. The one that comes most quickly to mind is the gentleman who shot up the Republican Senate baseball team practice. Technically, the unibomber was a left wing terrorist, and it gets messy quickly when one looks at groups in the 60s and 70s.

But yeah, this thing going on in right wing circles right now acting like the left is becoming radicalized and hyper-violent has the feel of an attempt to justify retaliatory violence. There was a segment on Joe Rogan's podcast recently, for example, where he and his guest who is a former Navy Seal discussed online calls for violence on the part of young self-identifying liberals and progressives mainly drawing from this incident:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/26/ ... oes-viral/

The conversation was sickeningly dark, going into the discussion of how the left doesn't know what kind of pandora's box it's opening because war is terrible and no one who gets it (meaning, people who have experienced war mostly assumed to be middle American military serving patriots) would want it but if a civil wars comes, they'll be involved.

It was a jump-the-shark WTF? kinda podcast experience.

[_Kevin Graham]

A few nights ago in San Francisco Leor Bergland was wearing a MAGA hat hanging outside a skating rink and screaming homophobic slurs at people passing by. One man knocked his hat off his head at which point Bergland pulled out a sword and swung, nearly severing the man's hand. Bergland then runs away while the man bleeding all over the sidewalk chased after him.

What a damned snowflake. You touch my hat and that gives me the right to kill you? Bergland is being held on $1 million bond and charged with attempted murder. Just making America great again no doubt.