General News North Carolina Republican office fire-bombed

Though, it could've been a false flag to drum up us vs. them rhetoric. I know some would not fail to see a conspiracy had the ideologies of the parties involved in this incident been flipped.

Nonetheless, if legitimate, this is surely a sign of the decaying political discourse in this nation. Those who say we are on the brink of another civil war may not be so far off.

 

I may may be the farthest one can be from a republican but i think we can all i agree that it is terrible that these people were targetted and thankfully no one was killed.

 

It's utterly deplorable.

Those who oppose Trump should be appalled by his behaviour. To retaliate like this just demonstrates that whoever is responsible completely missed the point about the democratic process.

 

I've seen multiple reports on this in the news the last day or two. None of them were what I would consider 'flippant'. Virtually all of them that I saw condemned the act.

In addition, there have been several reports, such as the one HERE, that Democrats used a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to help get the office re-opened as quickly as possible.

Todd

 

Lol, as someone who's seen "left-wingers" in action? Many of us sane non-white supremacists wouldn't be at all surprised if this is a sad attempt by drumps' dumps to evoke some kind of sympathy. I feel confident in saying if so, the attempt has grossly failed.

It's bad. We're glad no one got hurt. But it's a little odd for someone who is against Trump and his supporters to spray paint a message like that WITH a swastika. Gotta say, that's primarily been that side's brush work. Historically.

And please do not refer to Black Lives Matter supporters as "overemotional" and unjustifiably name them as the ones who would do something like this. It's pretty inconsistent if you know what the movement, which is a peaceful one, is about. And pretty damn racist. Check some of that privilege you've got there.

 

I don't have the energetic bandwidth one needs to have a (usually pointless) discussion with you about how enormously ignorant you sound. You're either highly privileged (cis white Christian male in a comfortable socioeconomic position, besides your potential orientation), or delusional and self loathing. I will never understand how someone who is gay could support a party that has done everything it can to fight against human rights, most especially that particular group of people's. It's on par with women who support Trump.

You could send me a document written and signed by the Dali Llama talking about how horrible "liberals" and people who fight to keep humanity from imploding in on itself are. I'm not blind enough to not recognize that systemic racism is extremely real. That rape culture is extremely real. That privilege is extremely real. And I am thankful that I'm not.

And Beyoncé never advocated, NOT EVEN ONCE, to shoot cops. Ever. Ever ever. The fact that you said that shows how you really don't pay that much attention. Have fun with it.

 

Some members of black lives matter have been extremists and did things that were incredibly wrong. One shouldn't judge a movement based on individuals though there are plenty of peaceful members who just want equality and have nothing to do with the deeds of these individuals.

I think the concept of " privilege" is bullshit but that's just me.

Either way to the topic at hand: No prove means no prove. It could have been left people or right people trying to frame left people. Both extremes have done their fair share of violence etc. thus the words extremists. But again the acts of individuals should never be used to define a whole movement with hundreds of people in it. On the other hand with what the right has done at other points it is uncalled for to now start playing the victim card.

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Also I would be very pleased if people would stop to refer to others as Nazis or compare Trump to Hitler. -.-

 

Has anyone said: "the left must cease their hateful rhetoric" yet? lol

 

I'm not sure if I should say this but I was abused and assaulted by a man of colour and I had to apologize to him because I was accused of being racist to him. I'm not sure if it's because I'm white or if I'm a woman and I'm treated as a object than a person but I think there are bad apples that ruin the bunch of a group. Are there bad apples in the police? Of course, just the same as the BLM thst rook Toronto Pride and ordered it to stop because they said they were more important. I think BLM has a good concept and ideology but perhaps their exceution and individual motivation could be fine tuned.

It's a hard topic in the states and I'm glad things in Canada havn't gone to the extreme. But I hope that someday I can be able to stand up for myself and not fear that no one will hear me because I'm a white lesbian woman. I think that's sad in itself.

On topic, I might consider telling my parents to cancel their trip to NC. I don't like the idea of them getting involved nor getting hurt. It feels very tense down there.