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Originally Posted by Damien
And Republicans have said the Democrats are communists, stealing elections, baby killers, will take away gun rights and are the enemies from within.
I agree that American politics uses inflammatory language a lot, and they need to tone it down. I agree with you that this can lead to violence - albeit indirectly in most cases - but let's not pretend this is limited to one side of the political aisle.
In June, a Democratic politician called Melissa Hortman, was killed.
I think a lot of people need to think about the tone in which they conduct politics and have disagreements, but the people most to blame for political violence in a democracy are those who resort to it.
And beyond that, it's also a country that's become so numb to violence that stories like this: https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-r...y?id=125452526 are just another day. |
But which set of descriptions has a tendency for violence against them to be supported. IE "Nazis, authoritarians, going to subjugate you, imprison you, take away your rights, your freedoms,". Violence against those is almost encouraged. That is the key difference.
Hortman killing seems to be about a single issue, namely abortion, rather than a general political stance.