(08-18-2017 02:44 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-18-2017 02:07 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(08-18-2017 02:01 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I'd put the Ferguson marches and the slaying of the Dallas police officers into that same category. I try to apply the same standard across the board.

To the bold - what group are you putting those people in? Your answer will greatly affect my response.

I'd put them into the group of people who were committing mayhem in Ferguson and who created a situation in which five Dallas police officers were shot and killed, just as the Charlottesville white supremacists belonged to a group that created a situation in which one person was run over by a car and killed.

What is the significance of the group anyway? I mean, what is a group if not the sum of its members?

The significance of the group is because a lot of the Charlottesville protestors were part of analogized KKK and neo-Nazi groups, and those groups collectively have stated missions. And those missions that do not stray far from (or explicitly condone) committing violence against others.

The people you are reference, as far as I am aware, were not part of organized groups advocating violence. They were either parts of mobs or lone-wolf type actors that don't have organizations advocating for a cause. Had the person who ran down the counter-protesters done so in association with say, an anti-abortion or libertarian rally, there would not be a direct connection to an organized group that condones violence as a means to an end. That's why I am willing to lump him in with the neo-Nazi groups where as the Dallas shooter, as far as I am aware, was not part of a group that had a stated mission of killing cops - he was just a sick dude.