Ultimately, political violence is caused by severe disagreement on how to best use the state's monopoly on violence to control people...
Therefore the root cause of any political violence is statism itself.
Did the media stay silent about Iryna Zarutska’s murder because they WANTED you to riot?
They already think the Right is a bunch of violent extremists and are baffled by how nonviolent we’ve been.
So, they buried this story, let our anger build up, and then made it about race and politics in hopes that we would take justice into our own hands.
That’s what the Left would do if the roles were reversed.
But you’re not like them. They want to tear down and destroy. We want to BUILD. You have every right to be furious, but don’t fall for this trap.
If a suspect hasn’t even been identified yet, you can’t opine on the causes of the shooting, unless you have a pre-existing narrative you want to push (which is 99% of commenters)
The crime in Charlotte was breathtakingly horrific. Almost unimaginable.
But to the battalions of right wingers out there with their race-based crime charts, pointing the fingers and hooting about "the Blacks" and "Black fatigue," etc. here's a clue: The real villain in this whole thing is the State.
It was the State, starting well before the "Great Society" nonsense, that sought to intervene in the lives of American Blacks to "bring them up" to "our" level.
And "fight racism," of course.
They only succeeded in destroying the one thing that actually helped bring Black people out of poverty and despair: Black Families.
Just as it was the state that passed the "Jim Crow" laws in the first place, when the State decided to clean up its act and make amends, it only succeeded in making matters worse.
The white "do-gooders" who substituted the State for the Black father through welfare and all manner of state-intervention have blood on their hands.
You like statistics? Have a look at how many Black kids grow up with Uncle Sam as their surrogate father.
And it's easy to blame white liberals for the mayhem the State has unleashed on Black people for the 70 or so years. But conservatives did next to nothing to make a coherent argument against the State interfering in our families. In fact they have been all for it.
The thug who killed that beautiful young woman should pay dearly for his crime. But the real hand on the knife was the State.
@WhiteHouse No one should need a license for a firearm. No one should have to register a firearm. The second amendment is pretty clear. Get your tyrannical bullshit out of here.
@tsidpod lol what? This is the pinnacle of libertarians are to blame for everything regardless of the fact that libertarians have ZERO political power or say in politics.
@DonaldJTrumpJr No one wants war with Iran. And no one is going to compromise for war with Iran just because they’re afraid of what it will do to Donald Trumps base. We are reaching ludicrous levels of stupidity.
@AgoristN Israel bragging about the precision of their missile strikes after leveling square miles of land in Gaza, while claiming that they have to bomb hospitals and schools because HaMAs iS uSiNg PaLesTiNiaNs aS SHieLds, is a different type of evil.