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Maybe it is overshadowed by left-wing governments shooting their own citizens in the street and running them over with tanks.
Nope, no violence ever got started by Antifa.
We even call the perpatrator a neo-Nazi (he is not named, so no fact-checking is easily accomplished in this), associating him with the worst of the worst, in many peoples' eyes. Never mind that Ukraine was overrun and brutalized by the Nazis. Never mind that some Ukrainians supported the Nazis because Hitler promised them an independent state free of the Soviet Union (LOL) that Ukraine had fought just a few years before in the Russian Civil War. Never mind that Stalin - a communist - and Mao - another communist - were even worse in terms of body count than even Hitler's evil regime.
Interesting that the author selects which mass shootings matter enough to mention to fit the narrative - El Paso, Sweden, Philidelphia Synagogue, and the headliner story and then associates them with politicians he doesn't like. Yet he omits San Bernardino (committed by ISIS) or Las Vegas (targeting country music fans, a decidedly not left-wing group of people, but not monolithic) because they don't fit the narrative. Europe has had a plethora of ISIS attacks in the past several years, yet he is silent on those.
Here's a narrative for you, high-speed:
Why do you seek out equivalency between a domestic incident in 2013 with foreign incidents that have precisely zero to do with each other? New Zealand might have been the better analogy, but that wouldn't make your point the right way. Is the bad guy in your story the immigrant from Ukraine that should have had more scrutiny before allowing him entry into the UK? Are you a closet Brexit supporter?
When we try to ascribe some kind of organization to the motives of crazies or maybe even ideologically motivated killers, and try to tie them to politicians, we are on very shaky ground. If the politician him/herself claims some kind of affiliation, then they are fair game.
There are a lot of nuts out there, and some of them are armed, or making bombs, or weaponizing trucks. Rhetoric like this does not do a damn thing to cool passions and get people to talk rather than shoot one another over political differences.
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Many, many more Muslims are killed by Islamic governments than by governments or people in Democratic Republics.
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Maybe there will outrage because of some recent violence by the far right... when there is outrage over the violence Antifa has committed over the last couple years. In the mean tme each side gets fueled by the other until it's going to blow up.
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Antifa wear masks and attacks citizens
ProudBoys wear no mask and only attacks Antifa.
When the Antifa stops the other side will go home.
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I have a problem with masks also, to me it seems an evil comes with masks; but we need to remember wrong is wrong on all sides. PO3 (Join to see)
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SFC (Join to see) Not saying the ProudBoys are perfect. But they are a direct response to Antifa. I do give them credit for not wearing masks, which makes them accountable for their actions when there is a error.
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