I am seeing a lot of confusion today about how the Political Violence Blame Game works. As a Professional Internet Zoologist, allow me to help educate you.
The 72 hour rule is still in effect for the Minnesota shooting, but with the facts available so far it’s not looking good for The Narrative. But from what I’ve seen this morning that sure isn’t holding liberal internet morons back from screaming about how “right wingers” have “legitimized political violence”, like violence is such a common right wing cultural thing, while the left are just out there showing kindness.
That’s a great theory, as long as you ignore lefties:
-shooting republican congressmen at a baseball game,
-trying to murder a Supreme Court Justice,
-trying to firebomb a democrat governor,
-shooting Israeli embassy employees,
-assassinating a health insurance CEO (and then the left glorifying that guy into a rock star sex symbol),
-setting Tesla stores on fire and screwing with random people’s cars in general,
-firebombing Jewish senior citizens,
-torching RNC HQs (ironically, googling this one to refresh my memory turned up a bunch of these that I’d not even heard of!).
-“globalizing the intifada”,
-beating up a republican senator,
-shooting a democrat mayor,
-running a republican legislator off the road because they’re upset about healthcare,
-attempting to stab a republican congressional candidate,
-swatting EVERYBODY, up to and including the FBI director(!),
-holding a few HUNDRED riots, with uncountable of acts of violence, arson, and looting. This one lumps in all the fun fire bombings, car flippings, bike lock beatings, and wacky political violence the left has turned into an art form.
-and not one, but two, assassination attempts on Donald Trump.
What’s funny is that listing some of those, I’m reminded it’s amazing how fast they dropped out of the news cycle. Some of these just barely happened, were incredibly violent, yet poof, 24 hours later they’re never mentioned again. You know if a racist white dude hit a bunch of elderly holocaust survivors with a Molotov cocktail that would be the biggest news story of the year and we’d never hear the end of it.
But in the spirit of moral equivalence, republicans have
-January 6th REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
-The FBI and a couple mentally handicapped guys plotted to kidnap a governor.
-a schizophrenic illegal immigrant leftist hit Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer. I’m not sure how we got assigned this weirdo, but it’s on every single list of political violence I googled.
-and an apolitical schizophrenic shot a democrat congress woman. Which again, has nothing to do with republicans, but I don’t make the rules.
Other than that republicans are responsible for all crimes committed by white men, regardless of political affiliation or motivation, but democrats are not responsible for any crimes committed by any other demographic and HOW DARE YOU?!? Every crime committed by a white man is political violence somehow, even if he’s a democrat. Every crime committed by someone else is not. This might be hard to grasp for normal sane people, but this is super obvious if you’re a journalist.
The left also thinks stuff like blocking traffic with their bodies is totally cool and not at all threatening to the poor bastards trapped in the vehicle now surrounded by several hundred screaming psychopaths, but God help you if you panic and try to escape.
But Mr. Internet Zoologist, what about the multitude of regular violent crimes that happen? Who gets blamed for those?
Don’t worry kids. You just need to remember the rules. If someone who can nominally be connected to the republicans commits a crime, then that’s a newsworthy hate crime. If they aren’t connected to the republicans at all, it is still the republicans fault for “raising the temperature” or “heated rhetoric”.
So for example, someone nominally connected to the right hits two protestors with a car, end of the world come apart time. A racist lunatic drives a car through an entire parade of innocent people, that’s Kyle Rittenhouse’s fault for having the gall to not get murdered politely months earlier.
So if there’s a shooting, and the killer is a racist white dude, that’s going to grab headlines and get talked about for the rest of your life. If the killer wrote a giant manifesto for lefty causes, then that’s not newsworthy at all, will get ignored and promptly forgotten, except for when they need to throw those stats on the pile to argue for more gun control. Oh, who am I kidding? They just make up the shooting stats as they go! (Hey, I wrote a book about that!)
If someone on the right uses a hurt-hurt or no-no word, that’s a hate crime, worthy of outrage. If there’s an entire hilarious subgenre of tens of thousands of Tik-Tok videos of insane, danger haired, nose ringed, leftists screeching for unrest, murder, arson, and assassination, while fapping it to shirtless pics of Luigi Mangione, that’s just free speech.
So in conclusion for every example of right wing political violence you can scrape up, you can probably find ten examples left wing political violence, but none of those ever count. Just remember, we’re always bad, and they’re always good, and then you’ll never get surprised reading the internet!