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No I mean literally the same people telling you to believe one tell you to believe the other. And that particular tribe is very obedient of their media leaders.


That cuts both ways. There are a lot of people who see themselves as pro law and order, would deplore a protest in which a police officer was killed, would normally be horrified by protesters chanting “shoot him with his own gun” when they isolated an officer, yet sympathise with the Capitol protests where both of these things happened.

The truth is most of the Capitol protesters probably had no intention to actually hurt anyone. The same is true of most of the people at BLM protests. Yet in both cases there are extreme elements that revel in violence for their respective cause. The problem isn’t left wing extremists or right wing extremists. The problem is extremists and those on either side that, while not violent themselves, offer aid comfort and support to those that are. That justify violence selectively in some cases while deploring it in others for partisan reasons.


>would deplore a protest in which a police officer was killed

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/capitol-polic...

But they surely instrumentalized that death for their own ends:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/29/politics/brian-sicknick-l...


A police officer was not killed. He died of natural causes as the coroner recently reported. Maybe stop listening to CNN.


But you don't mean that literally, hence your use of vague generalizations like "tribe" and "media leaders." You don't mean specific people, you mean a broad range of people that you have grouped into all holding singular opinions. Not the same thing.




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