I’m fully within a bubble here, but I’d say there are calls to violence from a minority on the left, but little to no actual violence demonstrated. There are calls for violence on the right from a larger proportion of their population, though perhaps still not the majority of them, and actual violence and murder frequently documented on the books.
I think the people on the left are often on the left because they have a certain respect for human life, unfortunately all human life, and we tend to believe in the political system more, rather than resorting to violence outside that system. We also tend to believe in people’s bodily autonomy, which leads to people’s right to not get punched in the face against their will. We also tend to not believe in the death sentence, even for the most heinous crimes.
Typically the calls for violence from the minority on the left are a frustrated desire to respond to violence with violence, to resist violence with violence, or to throw off the system entirely and build a new one, which often requires violence.
But there’s relatively little actual violence, at least right now, with a few calls from a few keyboard surfers.
I think their position is that it’s not political violence if “they’re right”. That’s just standing up for truth.
Political is when something is untrue like, I dunno, periods or something.
Isn’t that the position most anyone is willing to take? I’m certainly no maga fan but I see online calls to violence against them on a daily basis.
I’m fully within a bubble here, but I’d say there are calls to violence from a minority on the left, but little to no actual violence demonstrated. There are calls for violence on the right from a larger proportion of their population, though perhaps still not the majority of them, and actual violence and murder frequently documented on the books.
I think the people on the left are often on the left because they have a certain respect for human life, unfortunately all human life, and we tend to believe in the political system more, rather than resorting to violence outside that system. We also tend to believe in people’s bodily autonomy, which leads to people’s right to not get punched in the face against their will. We also tend to not believe in the death sentence, even for the most heinous crimes.
Typically the calls for violence from the minority on the left are a frustrated desire to respond to violence with violence, to resist violence with violence, or to throw off the system entirely and build a new one, which often requires violence.
But there’s relatively little actual violence, at least right now, with a few calls from a few keyboard surfers.