Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl...
by pstuart on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:53PM
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Left wing protestors were protesting against police brutality. And violence occurring at those protests must be recognized as having outside agitators intent on derailing the peaceful protest.
The right wing protestors at the capitol were trying to overturn the results of the democratic process, and were prepared to do so by force.
There's a difference there.
One of the major threads of the political discourse is that right wing businesses, representatives and protestors are being treated differently than left wing ones. How would you - even theoretically - make that case without drawing comparisons?
There is little room to argue that if any figure associated with the right was waving a mock severed head around that would be cause for extreme social, business or potentially legal consequences and/or people losing faith in basic civil liberties. There would be panic.
The standards are too visibly different for the gap to be dismissed.