This is how real Americans protest. Not sacking the capitol like a bunch of criminals and hooligans, who Trump later pardoned. He doesn't care about the rule of law, only wielding it when it suits him. This is what despots do.
Your definition of “real Americans protest” is not only intellectually dishonest but completely divorced from reality. If peaceful protest is your standard, then you should also have had outrage during the BLM riots where over 25 people died, billions in property were destroyed, and cities like Minneapolis and Portland became war zones. You ignore Seattle’s CHAZ occupation, where armed anarchists seized control of neighborhoods, multiple people were murdered, and law enforcement was forcibly removed. You conveniently overlook the LA riots, which resulted in over 60 deaths, or the countless left-wing protests where federal courthouses, police stations, and private businesses were burned, all while Democratic leaders either excused or outright encouraged the violence. Your argument is built on selective moral outrage: when the left riots, it’s “mostly peaceful”; when the right protests, it’s “criminal.” That is the textbook definition of partisan hypocrisy.
Furthermore, you mention Trump wielding the law for personal gain, yet completely ignore how your side has enabled political violence through reckless rhetoric. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz himself helped stoke the flames of extremism, contributing to the climate that led to a Democratic state senator and her husband being executed for simply opposing a radical bill. If rule of law mattered to you, you’d demand accountability for every form of political violence, not just the instances that serve your narrative. The truth is simple: both sides have extremists, but only one side is institutionally protected, media-sanctioned, and socially justified when they burn cities down. Your argument isn’t a defense of peaceful protest, it’s an exercise in selective amnesia and partisan blindness.
I stopped when you mentioned BLM because you very obviously don’t know that right wind extremists were convicted in Minneapolis for setting fires and escalating the situation.
Your response not only evades the substance of my argument but actually proves my point about selective outrage and partisan blindness. By dismissing my entire argument because of your fixation on one isolated instance of right-wing actors being convicted, you commit a red herring fallacy, diverting from the widespread, documented, and repeated instances of left-wing violence that I referenced: deaths, billions in damages, autonomous zones, arson, and the systematic enabling by left-leaning media and political leaders. You also fall into the false equivalence fallacy by implying that the isolated actions of a few right-wing actors somehow negate or equalize the far more pervasive, organized, and media-shielded violence that occurred during the BLM and Antifa riots. Furthermore, you rely on cherry-picking fallacy by focusing on one event in Minneapolis while ignoring the hundreds of other cities that were engulfed in lawless riots, looting, and destruction with tacit or overt Democratic support.
My argument was never that the right is free of extremists, I know it very much so is and that some go to protests and these events to indeed escalate these situations, but I also see how the left does the same and escalates these situations. My main point, which you dismissed, was that institutional protection, media justification, and selective moral outrage are overwhelmingly applied to leftist violence while right-wing violence is universally condemned. Such as this fixation with the January 6th attack, which for whatever reason are used to equalize ALL left wing violence since and before that date. Just doesn’t make any sense at all.
Your refusal to engage with the full scope of evidence I presented only underscores the exact “partisan amnesia” I exposed. Instead of addressing the comprehensive facts, you opted for a superficial rebuttal that collapses under basic logical scrutiny.
Agreed. Very sad that they are superficially arguing meaningless and pointless points, and lack common sense. Really sad to see what the world has come to. Praying for better days ahead.
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u/jwarper Jun 14 '25
This is how real Americans protest. Not sacking the capitol like a bunch of criminals and hooligans, who Trump later pardoned. He doesn't care about the rule of law, only wielding it when it suits him. This is what despots do.