Why not both?
- The hatred spewed from the alt-right is wrong.
- The hatred from boycotting Republicans is also wrong.
This is not a time to be encouraging divisive rhetoric or action. Else you'll find yourself generalizing and stereotyping a great many more people than those who actually deserve scorn. If one cares about non violence, one must avoid polarization. One must keep an appeal and an open hand offering sanctuary to those who seek shelter from the madness. Civil society does not exist without an olive branch.
So, we're just supposed to accept the fucking assholes doing that more than anyone? Give them hugs? Ah yes, let's "avoid violence" by just kneeling to the people screaming that we'd better just fall in line or else they're gonna get violent, because that's worked out sooo fucking well in history.
And what the fuck are we supposed to do about the madness itself? Because that's where all the shit that you're saying we shouldn't be doing is coming from. Guess what, they ate the olives, lit the olive branch on fire and are swinging it around, telling us to go fuck ourselves and that if we don't get them some more olives that they're going to start hitting us with it. But if only we would be nice to them!!! That would fix
everything.
Seriously, what fucking world do you live in where people calling for stuff like health care coverage for all, to not tear apart families over immigration issues, to not go to war, to do something about us polluting our environment, to stopping companies from poisoning us with drugs so they can make money after lying about it being addictive, where all of that (and a lot more) are the hateful ones? Especially when those people are regularly threatened violence by people who disagree with them? That you're acting like this isn't almost wholly coming from the insane extremist rhetoric that one side has been spouting for decades and that it'd all be fixed by just being nice to them is just delusional.
That you claim someone wanting Republicans - that have been spewing hate - to stop being hateful or leave is hateful is just fucking dumb. Simple as that. You're flat out just wrong, because that's what they are actually doing is telling the hatemongers that they'd like them to leave their place of business or that they're not going to buy their products any more because of the open hatred that they're showing to their fellow citizens.
Actually, you're just plain wrong entirely. Its the entirety of the right that has been spewing this hateful shit, not just the neo-Nazi wannabes. "Boycotting" hateful people is not hate, its telling them that you don't agree with their hate. You're acting like both sides are being divisive when that's explicitly coming from one "side". The other side is just going "I absolutely do not support the stuff you're doing because it is hateful and heinous". That you're acting like that is itself every bit as divisive is insane. That you are blatantly choosing to ignore that one side is overwhelmingly the one calling for and being violent is also just crazy.
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