Moral Equivalence

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In reality, he was (obviously) comparing them to the anarchists who use Trump rallies and such as excuses to cause destruction and physical injury - like hitting random women walking down the street in the face with a bag of rocks.

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Almost like certain groups use natural disasters and racists incidents to loot stores.

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my girlfriend voted for Hillary (I

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Dump her

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because then they have to have a discussion about Communism and admit ANTIFA and other similar groups are the ones who started using violence to silence opposing thoughts, THEN they have to admit they ignored this after Berkeley (and the following incidents) and emboldened ANTIFA

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Don Lemon accused Milo of hiring these people to cause a scene and then called him a White Supremacist. Milo should have sued him for that.

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I just don't understand how nobody in the MSM is having at least an honest discussion

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I found the problem.

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I just don't understand how nobody in the MSM is having at least an honest discussion about ANTIFA.

They are acting like Trump was comparing the Nazis to the average hippie barista protester casually holding a sign. CNN (I know...) was straight up using video editing and 15 second clips to make it seem like the "nice people" Trump was talking about at the protest were the Nazis who say Ivanka shouldn't have married a Jew.

In reality, he was (obviously) comparing them to the anarchists who use Trump rallies and such as excuses to cause destruction and physical injury - like hitting random women walking down the street in the face with a bag of rocks.

How DO you rank one against the other? They are both evil.

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My political leanings are toward the left, and I even think that it's bullshite

We should not condone violent "protesting"


Look I think the people protesting to to keep the statue up are wrong and many are bigoted and hateful, but as long as they aren't violent or inciting violence it is their right to peacefully protest.
I don't know who threw the first punch. Part of me suspects (thought that's probably based on my own prejudices) the neo-nazis and white supremacists there were hoping to incite violence with how well they were armed for a "peaceful protest". If that indeed is the case they are also wrong

But we shouldn't forget ANTIFA is wrong, they shouldn't seek out violent options because that only breeds more violence and there is no place for that in our society and the MSM should take far more of a hard line approach to call this out.

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Don Lemon

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was unbearable last night. Unfortunately, I use Sling TV and only get CNN at the moment. But his segment was one of the biggest pieces of propaganda masquerading as news that I've ever seen.

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So the media will come off pro violence in name of shutting down speech and even more anti cop over next 3 years. Trump completely owns them as fake news now.

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They act like ANTIFA is just an innocent, understandably violent (in their delusional minds) reaction to "Trump's dangerous rhetoric".

There is a fundamental lack of understanding of who these people are. Trump fans understand because they went to the rallies and crossed paths with them. Others are either intentionally or accidentally clueless.

Are they anti-Nazi? Sure... but they are also anti-government and anti-democracy and pro-violence and pro-suppression of free speech.

The Nazis are just as much a reaction to the left's identity politics as ANTIFA is a reaction to The Donald.