(06-25-2019 07:58 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 10:55 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 09:14 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 08:55 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 08:53 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  How is that is difference? There are plenty of examples of "illegal, immoral, or unethical" actions on both sides.

Just more on the left, currently.

OK... no data to back up that assertion but I won't fight you on that. It makes sense that you are going to have more "righteous anger" from the side that is not currently in power in general. I'll give you that. There was probably more from the right during the Obama years.

I would be interested in what illegal, immoral, or unethical actions were promulgated by the right out of a sense of justification during the Obama years, in your opinion.

Do you consider the 'town halling' to be illegal, immoral, or unethical?

Or the temerity of the so-called Tea-Party movement for just 'being' to be illegal, immoral, or unethical?

I will undoubtedly grant you that the voices of the libertarians and conservatives were probably much louder than the voices of the left during that time.

Much as the converse of that statement is true today.

But the issue isnt the 'loudness of the voices'. The issue in the term 'righteous anger' we seem to agree means not just the voice, but the sense that the position justifies illegal, immoral, or unethical behavior.

You just stated that "there was probably more from the right during the Obama years" -- so please tell us the specific illegal, immoral, or unethical behavior that the right or libertarian slant justified based on their political philosophy.

You may be correct; but I dont see much (if any) such actions being justified by the right or libertarians during that period. The floor is yours ----

Looks like there were some right-wingers filled with righteous anger after Obama was elected in 2008: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/...rack-obama

So 20 or so SPLC reports over the 8 years of the Obama administration.

Without condoning any of them or minimizing them, seems hard to distinguish from background ass hattery when spread out over 300 million people.

Perhaps we can surmise from the roughly 2 small events per year (heck lets be generous and give it a full 3 events per year) at the nationwide scale that is a yuuuuuuge surge of righteous anger. Kind of more in line with background noise levels.

How many people rioted in Mo. over the false narrative of 'my hands are up dont shoot' alone? I somehow suspect it was more than twenty, would you agree? Heck we still have all the cop ambushes to go down if you decide to really mine that splc source.

Your thesis of more 'right'eous (pun.haha) anger during those years isnt really gaining much traction.

on a tangential note you do know the problems the spcl have found themselves neck deep in in the last couple of years, right?

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