(08-06-2019, 04:39 PM)rollerjag Wrote: If a shooter in an attack resulting in multiple fatalities is Muslim, he's a radical terrorist.

If he's a white supremist he's mentally ill.

Check.

And when the POTUS repeatedly calls the influx of immigrants from Central America an invasion, then hears a supporter yell "Shoot them" and he laughs and makes a joke of it while others laugh and applaud, he's helping the problem, right?

OK I'll play your game.

Radical terrorists, Muslim or not, also have a mental illness.

But just because a mass shooter is white, doesn't make him a white supremist. But yes, I'd call that mental illness also.

If someone is willing to shoot up a store, concert, movie theater. Or blow it up. Or run down a group of people in a truck. Or go on a stabbing spree....  they need mental help (or remedied via death)

If someone listens to Donald J Trump on TV and decides something he said makes them want to kill people, they have mental illness, regardless of race, creed, nationality, religion, sex, or sexual preference.

But carry on trying to make crazy straw man arguments on how this is Trump and white males fault everywhere.

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(08-07-2019, 07:24 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(08-06-2019, 11:09 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: To say that the problem is one-sided is irresponsible and dangerous.

I definitely think it’s coming from both sides.

However this message board is absolutely littered with new threads each day about “the looney left”. Are there some about the right? Yes but I would say there are far more posts and threads about Dems/The Left.

Most threads started are by the same few people on both sides to be real though.

There's a few righties that always post stuff that demonizes the left makes them feel validated.
And there's a few lefties that always start threads to demonize the right and make them feel validated.
And then a bunch of us jump in and argue about it for awhile about why we're right and you're wrong.

As per the number of said posts vs the other posts.... well who is starting the thread. Does that particular poster like to stir up drama more than most?


But in America, outside of message boards and social media sites... it's fairly even for vitriol on both sides.
And per liberal v conservative.... there is far more liberal media (and social media) giants than conservative ones.... so I see many more headlines (which matter more than MB threads, imo) attacking from the left.

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