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“THIS IS WAR”: Some right-wing figures call for retribution following Kirk killing
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What about the assassination of a senator? Did that also upset the right, or where they all cheering?
On one hand, I agree with the point. Political assassinations should be condemned by the right, and it shouldn't be acceptable to have people giving a pass on political grounds.
On the other hand, I was reading the comments on here after Kirk was shot, and almost without exception, people here were cheering. I saw one or two comments from people saying something like "political assassinations are bad", and people heavily downvoting them.
Now, okay. I can't prove that some of the users commenting and cheering on the assassination weren't, say, bots aimed at trying to create political division and polarization, though I doubt that the Threadiverse is likely the juciest of targets for that sort of thing; not a huge userbase. But my strong suspicion is that we are failing to meet the bar being asked of the right here.
Yeah, the problem I'm seeing now is that everyone on the right is seeing the left's reaction. And now they don't care if the shooter actually was someone from the left or not.
The response they see is all they need to justify any reaction. Of course they're conveniently forgetting their own response (and Charlie Kirk's response) to Pelosi's attacker.
Like they needed to justify it...