Civilized General Discussion Board: Like a said, a lot of nuts are responsible for much of the mayhem.

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Like a said, a lot of nuts are responsible for much of the mayhem.

Posted by TW

on September 17, 2025, 4:28 pm, in reply to "A Lee Harvey Oswald on Kirk? Ummm that's a big issue here. Kirk wasn't POTUS, not even elected!"

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Below is a bit more that caught my eye.

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And somebody out there decided to kill him over it.

I know the right side of the American political spectrum has its share of yahoos — the guy who mailed pipe bombs to Trump critics, the PizzaGate conspiracy theory believer who fired an AR-15 inside the D.C. restaurant Comet Ping Pong. Abortion clinic bombers. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh often gets inaccurately characterized as Christian extremist — he described himself as an agnostic — and while he was indisputably vehemently opposed to the federal government in a way that we usually define as “right wing,” he also believed the U.S. government had implanted a computer chip in his buttocks.

I would note that a couple of examples that get cited or remembered as “right-wing violence” really were nothing of the sort. The man who shot Gabby Giffords was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed that grammar was a sinister form of mind control used by the government. The man who murdered the Minnesota House of Representatives speaker and her husband and shot a state senator and his wife earlier this year wrote in a letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel that Democratic Governor Tim Walz selected him to kill Democratic lawmakers, including Senators Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar.

Yesterday, I found myself thinking back to a (too) brief, small-scale controversy back in April, where CNN aired a prime-time special allegedly about “disinformation” and interviewed journalist Taylor Lorenz, in which she argued that Luigi Mangione, who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the back, is “a person that seems like this morally good man, which is hard to find.” She also swooned about the killer as “a man who’s revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who is young, who’s smart.”

(Today’s word of the day is “hybristophilia.”)

Does it increase the odds of another case of left-wing violence when Lorenz says the man who shot another man in the back is “a morally good man”?

Does it increase the odds of another case of left-wing violence when CNN’s interviewer Donie O’Sullivan just nods and smiles in seeming agreement, and doesn’t respond with, “What the hell are you talking about? This man’s a cold-blooded murderer, he’s not morally good!”

Source:
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-american-mainstreams-tacit-acceptance-of-left-wing-violence/