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Roy Brander's avatar

I've often dumbed it down to the body-count. "Murder will out" and where stats are shaky, the number of dead is more reliable than trying to count concussions and broken limbs.

Watts Riots, 1965: 34 dead (violence in Los Angeles)

Detroit Riots, 1967: 43

Rodney King, 1992: 63 (L.A. again)

BLM, 2020: 25 (combined, all over America)

....there is just no sign of left-wing violence rising in response to all these threats from the right. Most of those BLM marches happened after they'd been threatened with federal troops. Helicopters overhead. Marchers bloodied on TV. And, obviously, the Heather Heyer vehicular murder left 5 in critical condition, injured 35.

That's a lot of provocation for very little violence, and of course, the dead in 2020 were more often marchers than people assaulted by marchers.

I'd like to see the argument against the statement that the Left has done nothing but moderate since the Weathermen and Black Panthers. Black protests have never again gone the Black Panther route of armed Black men patrolling neighbourhoods. I can't remember the last left-wing bombing or shooting.

So, there's Justin, having to resort to the subjunctive: "IF the left feels" [they must], they MAY take...".

Call me when the first Lefty militia has formed, JL. The right has been forming them in numbers since, oh, about Gingrich.

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Richard MacDowell's avatar

In due course.

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