Slash is the only black Jew I can think of.
Rain Pryor.
Just as the conservative would love him to be a conservative. I think it's a null point overall.
*I assume you meant to type
liberal?
This is a big problem with the left for me personally, as I more or less identify
more with the left.
There's little to no principle anymore. Acting like a moron because the other side does it too is an incredibly dumb and unprincipled way to act.
This is why the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party are less and less representing their supporters and more and more blending together into an amorphous blob of horseshit.
Makes me think of smug intellectuals that denounce the concept of
common sense and then argue for two wrongs making a right without seeing the irony.
They were angry about people who downright and unequivocally support genocide though. Sure, maybe not all of them, but who the fuck stands shoulder to shoulder with people who do. It's tantamount to supporting that shit too.
What do you think the left was outraged about?
edit: Why do you completely ignore the fact that I admitted that it wasn't the best point I could have made.
In that case, the entire counter-protest were communists or at least by this logic you've just used, standing with people who wave hammer and sickle flags and/or wear Mao and Che shirts is tantamount to supporting those ideologies and individuals.
My general sentiment about Charlottesville is that if a person of right-wing sentiment was there who didn't approve of white supremacism, then he or she should have promptly left the rally or begun counter-protesting.
If you're comfortable walking alongside white supremacists, then I'm doubtful of your values.
If you don't approve of rhetoric which calls for dead police and the silencing of whites that Black Lives Matter often call for, or the violent overthrowing of the government, the removal of property rights, the fundamental rejection of liberal democracy and of the oppression and potential starvation of billions of people for the sake of communism or even just socialism then you should have promptly left the rally.
Makes sense right? Or are you saying being comfortable standing with people who wave hammer and sickle flags shouldn't also bring into question that person's values?
(Not "you" as in you personally fyi.)
I wasn't defending the media in my post. I was criticizing what I took to be the same myopia and ideological grandstanding coming from the opposing side. I think you'd also be naive to not believe that the conservative media would love the shooter to be a liberal. It's a great one-liner when we can chalk the other side's problems up to the actions of a fucking asshole, but it proves absolutely nothing.
It proves that, in the minds of even the leftists such as yourself, you're no better than the right in all the areas it truly counts.
I'm not really sure what being a militiaman has to do with being absolved of responsibility. My problem is that they attended and stood alongside white supremacists; and from what I read, they aligned themselves with those protestors. Some militia, like the Three Percenters, told their members to stay home rather than stand next to white supremacists. That's something I can get behind.
I can get behind principled positions against guilt by association. Can you?
I was also defending the response from counter-protestors who likely felt intimidated by the presence of armed men who weren't police (although they probably fear the police too, unfortunately). There were plenty of right-wing people who planned to attend but decided not to. Those who did attend present an ambiguous message. That's what I was saying.
Yeah they're all just a bunch of victims who decided to bring primitive weaponry to a gun fight. Only victims who are simply considering their own safety do things like that.
What can i say, your just a moron is all.
