(05-07-2019 09:53 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(05-07-2019 09:43 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-07-2019 09:38 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(05-07-2019 05:40 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  And as I have said before, there are plenty of people on the right who denounce the KKK/Nazi/white supremacist element. I don't see many on the left denouncing Antifa. I see far more defending or excusing them.

Maybe not 'defending' them -- I don't think I have seen anyone in mainstream liberal/progressive side (even as far as the left has moved and the 'mainstream' has correspondingly tracked to what was once 'radical left' territory) say "Yay, go Antifa, knock some heads".
And I don't see a full excuse in that vein either.
I do see a full court press that seems to say 'our thugs who knock the fk out the other side are coming from a better place and thus relatively 'better' than those others'.

I pretty much see that as excusing them, at minimum, if not defending them.

I would label it as a relative partial justification. Perhaps that is me parsing linguistic hairs as I am accused of occasionally(?).

And I would say look for relative partial justification in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of excusing.

Regardless, I think we agree that democrats get a lot more leeway with Antifa than republicans do with the far right.

My bottom line. My father and his generation fought a world war against the swastika. My generation and I fought a cold war against the hammer and sickle. We won both. Now is no time to give in to either. I reject both.