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Originally Posted by Damien
And the ones on the right, I don't know why you keep pretending political violence is one-sided when there have been ample attacks by right-wing extremists as well. On the same day Kirk was murdered, one of them shot children at a school: https://www.denverpost.com/2025/09/1...orado-updates/
There was the attack by the Nazi that killed 8 people in Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_A..._mall_shooting
The 'great replacement theory' nutjob that killed 10 black people the year before; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting
In this country, it's thankfully rarer to have any of these kinds of attacks - left or right - but we still had the murder of Jo Cox and the guy who drove a van into a Mosque in Finsbury Park.
There is a long history of far-right attacks.
As TheDaddy says, these people need to be shunned. It's not left v right but extremists vs us all. |
7th July 2005? Failed attempt 21st July 2005. Another planned attack was thwarted before then with a link to one of the 7/7 bombers,
Ross Parker 2001.
Serioza Lawskoski 2012
Those "nice" BLM protestors.
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A trial is set to begin Monday for a man charged with murder in the July 2020 shooting death of an 8-year-old girl who was riding in an SUV near a weekslong protest at the site where police had fatally shot a Black man weeks earlier.
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A key difference is whether the type of reaction to any killings. With Charlie Kirk, there is a widespread reaction from the left of saying along the lines of "he deserved it". Plenty of examples.
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According to the Telegraph, Mr Abaraonye posted a message on Instagram which read "Charlie Kirk got shot loool" - an elongated version of the phrase 'lol' which means 'laughing out loud'.
He is also said to have, external posted in a WhatsApp chat with fellow students, appearing to welcome the incident.
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How many of the attacks you listed had that widespread type of reaction?