Friday, October 11, 2019

Antifa Attacks Cops And Trump Rally-Goers?

Is this true? It would be entirely unsurprising--in fact, par for the course. Leftist violence against non-leftists has become fairly routine--and against Trump supporters in particular. 
   I find no mention of this outside conservative sites.
   One would expect an objective media to report on it.
   There was plenty of hyperventilation about "Oath Keepers" escorting rally-goers in order to protect them from violence, but there's basically no coverage of the actual violence--which, again, has become routine--against rally-goers.
   The only way I know to figure things out under conditions of uncertainty such as our current ones is to take hold of as many clear cases/issues/etc. as possible, think about them carefully, and take them seriously. There is, of course, politically-motivated violence on the right--and of a much, much deadlier variety. However, it does matter that those are lone nuts. That means that, though that violence is more deadly, it's less informative about the right than left-wing violence is about the left. The violence on the left is not conducted by lone nuts, but by a loosely-organized group that has basically become the Blackshirts of progressivism. They are very open about being against the Constitution and against the U.S. They use violence routinely as a political tactic. The media and the rest of the left ignore them and even actively defend them. This is one of those clear things on which, I believe, one has to seize. There's no systematic use of suppressive political violence on the right. It's become a major component of the left. And the broader left is to some extent in favor of it and to some extent insufficiently against it to bestir itself to object. If this were anomalous, we might be more skeptical about how indicative it is of attitudes and principles on the left. But it isn't.. It's in accordance with ideas that are ascendant on the political left, and it's in some sense just the most physical expression of a now-common leftist view that non-leftists should be punished by whatever means are available. Ruin their reputations via social media, ban them from speaking, chase them out of restaurants, get them fired, falsely accuse them of "hate crimes"...it simply can't be seen as surprising that beat them up is taken to be another viable option. 
  If right-wing groups were beating progressives coming out of Warren rallies, it would be reported absolutely everywhere, absolutely all of the time. That's simply undeniable.

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