How exactly did Trump incite violence? He condemned the insurgents. He said today that killing cops should result in the death penalty. How exactly is he inciting violence?
Trump is a master of the implied violence. Words like 'use strength' incite violence.
Chants like "No justice, no peace" or "All Cops Are Bastards", along with the closed fist symbol used by BLM are inherently violent. Any individual or corporation supporting supporting such violent rhetoric and symbolism should be de-platformed, lose their jobs, and be unable to engage in financial transactions...just like Trump.
but nice try with your whataboutism. "No Peace" means the protests weren't going to end until the cops stopped getting away with shooting black folk. This was understood from context. Also it's not "All Cops Are Bastards" it's "All Cops Are Bad'. It's a reference to the "Blue Wall", e.g. how cops protect their own even when their own are bad, making them in turn all bad.
So no, the two are not even remotely equivalent. One lost a fair election and attempted to overthrow the US Government, failing largely
"All Cops Are Bad" gets 142K results on Google. "All Cops Are Bastards" gets nearly triple that with 397K results as well as showing Wikipedia's article titled "A.C.A.B." as the first result... article starts with: "A.C.A.B (All Cops Are Bastards) is an acronym used as a political slogan associated with dissidents who say they are subjected to political persecution and..."
or the BLM movement, but we're splitting hairs. The point is still valid. The meaning of the phrase is that all cops look the other way. Put a few bad apples in a bag and the whole bag rots, yet somehow we still use the "bad apples" analogy.
So to bring it back to the main point, one side wants police accountability and the other wants to violently overthrow an election they lost. Not at all comparable.
explain (Score:-1, Troll)
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Trump is a master of the implied violence. Words like 'use strength' incite violence.
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Trump is a master of the implied violence. Words like 'use strength' incite violence.
Chants like "No justice, no peace" or "All Cops Are Bastards", along with the closed fist symbol used by BLM are inherently violent. Any individual or corporation supporting supporting such violent rhetoric and symbolism should be de-platformed, lose their jobs, and be unable to engage in financial transactions...just like Trump.
93% of the BLM protests were nonviolent (Score:5, Insightful)
So no, the two are not even remotely equivalent. One lost a fair election and attempted to overthrow the US Government, failing largely
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"All Cops Are Bad" gets 142K results on Google. "All Cops Are Bastards" gets nearly triple that with 397K results as well as showing Wikipedia's article titled "A.C.A.B." as the first result... article starts with: "A.C.A.B (All Cops Are Bastards) is an acronym used as a political slogan associated with dissidents who say they are subjected to political persecution and ..."
It's not what the protestors use (Score:2)
So to bring it back to the main point, one side wants police accountability and the other wants to violently overthrow an election they lost. Not at all comparable.
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That's right. Because, one side got political support and favorable media coverage, and the other side didn't. Not at all comparable.