In fact here, I’ve got more important things to do but I know you won’t share the full context of that Trump quote so here it is, from that noted Right Wing publication USA Today! The headline of the column is " Trump’s Charlottesville comments twisted by Joe Biden and the media"
"Taken out of context, the “fine people” quote does look troubling, but Trump’s critics never tell the whole truth. The statement came from an August 15, 2017 press availability, in which the president was engaged in a spirited discussion with journalists over the broader implications of the Charlottesville street clash. Check the transcript.
Here’s a more complete quote:
“You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. … I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. … So you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the White nationalists, because they should be condemned totally — but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and White nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people. But you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats. You had a lot of bad people in the other group.”
And according to the logic you’re using regarding BLM supporters that is wrong even in it’s entirety. Either that or you are using a massive double standard.
There are good people on both sides of these issues. There are good people in just about any group. (Likewise, scumbags.)
But you give a great example of leftist duplicity, and for that, I thank you! The leftist narrative was that there were no people among the rightists involved at Charlottesville who were good. None of you wanted to give an inch to the notion that any of them were good people.
For the Left, the broad bush paints only one way.
I agree with you that good people who were present with the Unite the Right rally are rightly painted with the behaviors of the rightists who went there to riot. And good people who were present with the Antifa counter rioters are rightly painted with the behaviors of the leftists who were there to riot.
And through the months of BLM activity, supporters (whether peaceful and law abiding or not) own the behaviors that come out of BLM activity.
Absolutely it is. Oh, certainly not ALL BLM activity involves rioting. Nowhere have I said that or even hinted it, and it would be a deliberate lie to say that I have. So I recommend that you don’t try that.
All you proved is that rioting is not an absolute, which is a stupid point to make. If you want to say that ANYONE has said that all BLM activity involves rioting, it would be your own statement.
You seem to want to sidestep the corollary that one violent protest is too many. You haven’t had the guts to agree with that.
Instead you made this thread to say that “only” 7% of the protests turned violent. (And that number is based on an agendized “study”.) That’s an attempt to downplay the violence.
And that most certainly IS shameless. [/quote]
Amen to that.
If 93 percent are “peaceful” then a helluva a lot of burning, looting, beatings, and killings have come from some where.
No. The democrats should be apologizing for the billions of dollars of damage, the threats, the intimation, the beatings, the arson, the assaults, the destruction of lives and the murders that their people have committed.
Exactly! Forced to set up a defensive perimeter and cower for 3 1/2 months? Absurd. They could end the violence in less than a week if the city wasn’t afraid of BLM and Antifa.
O.J. Simpson was mostly peaceful the day Nicole Simpson died.
The Charlottesville protests were mostly non violent until 1 idiot get in a car and ran over people.
The motorcade carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand was mostly peaceful until the minute he was assassinated and WW1 broke out.
Thing is when people start torching cities and violence occurs that is what the focus is on, not the people holding peaceful marches. And that goes for both sides. We have managed to dodge so many bullets of something very bad happening and maybe one day we won’t which is why the mostly peaceful protests need to stop if during them if every time they include violence, rioting, looting, and property destruction.