Shouts of ‘he should be shot’ heard during GOP midterm convention speech criticizing Democratic candidates | CNN Politics
edition.cnn.com
Shouts of “he should be shot” could be heard multiple times Thursday night at the Republican midterm convention as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was criticizing prominent Democratic politicians by name.
  • hakase@lemmy.zip
    04·
    3 days ago

    I’m not making any claims at all about who the victims are. Only pointing out the fact that all sides claim to be victims and then use that claim to justify their violence.

    It is interesting that doing so here immediately results in vitriolic accusations of being a Nazi, however. I wonder what I’d get called if I said the same thing on Truth Social.

    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      You keep repeating “both sides” ignoring completely that there’s one side causing violence and another one responding to that violence. That is disingenuous in the best case, and dishonest in the worst.

      Do you understand that republican nazis here could stop all the violence calls against them by simply stopping their persecution of minorities and “non white” people? Do you understand that the other side (aka: left-wing people, minorities and, in general, “non white” people) would not need to defend themselves against fascists if those fascists weren’t trying to kill them? “Both sides” is just a way of equalling violence between a victim and a bully and shifting blame to the victim. You are doing that and, if you say that nazis and their victims are equal… it kinda makes you a nazi.