About those peaceful antifa protests...

[CountDeMoney]

Trump doesn't support Nazis and you know it.

Both silence and moral equivalency implies at best ambivalence and at worst consent--none of which are acceptable options for any President of the United States.

I don't see why a very small Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville is the core issue, moreso than rampant Antifa violence nationwide.

Rampant means "flourishing" and "unchecked."  Please link to examples of such flourishing and unchecked rampancy nationwide. 

[Ancient Demon]

Both silence and moral equivalency implies at best ambivalence and at worst consent--none of which are acceptable options for any President of the United States.

He shouldn't have had to comment on such a minor event at all. I don't recall Obama's feet being held to the fire every time a black person somewhere did something bad.

As for moral equivalency, political violence is political violence, regardless of the alleged ideology of the perpetrator.

Rampant means "flourishing" and "unchecked."  Please link to examples of such flourishing and unchecked rampancy nationwide.

I'm not interested in playing word games. Read up on the "Battle of Berkeley" for an example of what I mean.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm not interested in playing word games.

Then stop being a douchebag with them.

[Razgovory]

I seem to recall constant demands that Obama say the words "radical Islamic terrorism" and complaints that Obama is not forceful enough in his rhetoric concerning Muslims.

[garbon]

I had briefly forgotten about what a douche Ancient Demon is. I guess there's a face to why America got Trump.

[Camerus]

I think he's Canadian.

[Valmy]

Yeah, most of the anti-antifa stuff seems to be a rather weakly veiled attempt to ignore the core issue. Which is fucking Nazis and their support by POTUS.

Well yes. That is obvious. It is whataboutism. That was clear from the beginning.

[Camerus]

I think it's reasonable to hold that both are problems significant enough to warrant discussion and condemnation without engaging in whataboutism. IMO both represent serious societal dysfunction.

[Maximus]

He shouldn't have had to comment on such a minor event at all. I don't recall Obama's feet being held to the fire every time a black person somewhere did something bad.

For that analogy to hold up you'd have to be saying that Trump is an actual Nazi.

[Ancient Demon]

I think he's Canadian.

Yes.

[Ancient Demon]

He shouldn't have had to comment on such a minor event at all. I don't recall Obama's feet being held to the fire every time a black person somewhere did something bad.

For that analogy to hold up you'd have to be saying that Trump is an actual Nazi.

No.

[Ancient Demon]

I think it's reasonable to hold that both are problems significant enough to warrant discussion and condemnation without engaging in whataboutism. IMO both represent serious societal dysfunction.

Agreed. What annoys me the most is the double standards.

[CountDeMoney]

I think it's reasonable to hold that both are problems significant enough to warrant discussion and condemnation without engaging in whataboutism. IMO both represent serious societal dysfunction.

Agreed. What annoys me the most is the double standards.

Yes, the Missouri Border Ruffians said that about the Kansas Free Staters too.

[Valmy]

I think it's reasonable to hold that both are problems significant enough to warrant discussion and condemnation without engaging in whataboutism. IMO both represent serious societal dysfunction.

Agreed. What annoys me the most is the double standards.

What double standard?

[Valmy]

I think it's reasonable to hold that both are problems significant enough to warrant discussion and condemnation without engaging in whataboutism. IMO both represent serious societal dysfunction.

Sure it is possible. But it was only done this time once somebody got murdered by a far right nut case. Suddenly we all had to denounce everybody else for some reason. Just so the far right doesn't feel like they are unjustly blamed for something.

I don't think anybody is really all that worried about those antifa clowns. But hey if they are that concerned I don't think anybody will complain if criminals are arrested. Because I have to say that repeatedly for some reason. Just so there is no 'double standard'.