(06-25-2019 01:42 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(06-25-2019 01:23 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-25-2019 09:20 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-25-2019 09:07 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-25-2019 08:24 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  How do you know they were right-wingers? My father-in-law, a lifetime straight ticket Democrat, could have had the same reaction.

But in any case, this discussion has drifted. It originally was about a sense of righteousness in one's cause or position, not anger. I don't think Obama was angry when he made his comment about people "clinging to their guns and religion", and I don't think Hillary was angry when she made here "deplorables" speech. The righteousness portion is about smugness, not anger. "We're better than you, because you lack understanding like we have".

I am sure some people were upset in 2009 at Obama being elected, and others were upset that he was black. But you didn't see the widespread movements including violence over his election we saw with Trump, nor did we see a widespread and long lasting movement to have him removed for unfitness.

So, yes, some right wingers did some stupid stuff. But nowhere as widespread and long lasting as the stupid stuff done by left wingers the last three years. What were the equivalents of the Antifa riots back then? What was the equivalent of the Russia collusion witch hunt? Maybe there were a few people calling for impeachment, maybe not, but anything like the numbers now?

True, I don't have data to back this up, just my eyes and ears, but if one would kindly refer me to the database in which I can find these statistics, I would be glad to reference them.

I love the way a string of anecdotal incidents involving 1-4 people are construed to be a movement similar to the Resistance.

Sorry... I remembered racist violence after the 2008 elections and so I looked it up. That was the first thing that came to mind. I'm sure there's plenty more to be found if one has the time (which I currently don't). I did not mean for my post to be looked at as a definitive catalog on this topic.

Remember that church that I recently linked where the police detective was calling for gay people to be put to death? I wonder what was said in that church (and many others like it) after the 2008 election.

Maybe a lot of the same, or maybe it was people talking about how crazy Brother Cop is. Your assumptions are just...assumptions. Seemingly based on a stereotype.

Still trying to make a single cop, or even a single church, equivalent to the organized anti-right actions and the widespread calls for impeachment?

No. That's why I said "and many others like it".

lolz... so the long and short is that you really cant specifically document those broad allegations.

Next best thing to cover that bet is to cite a onesy or twosey, then wave your hands and say 'and many others like it'.

Hopefully you see the deficiency there. Not really any proffer of proof, but the proof is just a reiteration of your broad unsubstantiated allegation.

Not trying to cover it up. Like I said... crazy week at work and not looking to do significant research here. Maybe you're right... perhaps conservatives would never stoop so low as to justify immoral actions based on righteousness...