> Well last night that violence unfolded in El Paso. Ron was unhurt. It wasn't life-threatening, but it was aggressive and violent. But what about the next time? Or the time after that?
This is the same shit you see from "Antifa" on the left, and it's abhorrent regardless of the source. To pretend that both sides aren't getting increasingly violent is to reject reality. This isn't a false equivalency situation; both left and right are being pushed into division.
I'd suggest the BBC are more balanced than most, so I'd suggest your comment here is close to being cut out false equivalency with a side of whataboutism as you can have on a topic that's talking about violence at Trump rallies specifically.
This article is about mindless violence towards the media that's displayed and documented at Trumps rallys. It's not about antifa.
I don't know what media outlet is to Antifa, that is Fox News to the Right. But I'd welcome a discussion on what we can do to encourage a more fair and balanced media and what we do to hold drunken louts like the gentleman in the article for abhorrent violence.
Well, something that would improve HN for me is if you changed your username to something less disturbing to read. If everyone had names like that, the site would be ridiculous and unusable. I don't know what you were thinking. I'm not against swearing, in movies or real life, but there is a limit, and you seem to have crossed it there, totally unnecessarily. Apologies if the name is highly significant to you, but it isn't to anyone else, it's just something I'd rather not read. Thanks.
You were nothing less than polite in your remarks. I appreciate your (edit:) candour, you have absolutely nothing to apologise for.
My handle is significant to me, and AFAIK there's no way to change your handle on HN. Though being honest, even if I were given the chance, I probably wouldn't change it.
I'm unsure if there's a mechanic to block some one on HN but if it does, I'd recommend you use it in this instance. Apologies that I can't be of any further help.
Out of interest, why is there a limit? And what is that limit?
Also, would you change your username if I requested you to do so? (Perhaps I had a bad experience in the past which makes the word “Adam“ something I‘d rather not read)
Indymedia is a news outlet popular with the left. It's a long time since I read it, but I don't think they're anything like as loose with the facts as Fox News.
Have you seen how the media treated the MAGA kid? They painted a false narrative and all of Hollywood
and Twitter joined in unison to dox and character assassinate a high school kid who literally just stood there as he was getting harassed, called all sorts of names and having a drum shoved in his face.
But God forbid the kid smirk to ease the tension. What do we do to hold media accountable for painting false narratives and stoking the fires of tension, intentionally for hits and ratings?
There's an argument to be made that the "kid" in question did what he did completely knowingly. Nobody would knowingly wear a MAGA hat into a space like that unless they knew they wanted to cause trouble
Strange times when the woke left is arguing that someone deserved it because of what they were wearing...
The Covington case was naked woke hysteria, there is no way around it. Particularly because even after the details came out, people were still doubling down and making excuses for everyone else there.
The hat is the official merch of your current sitting president. The way it's treated as an overt symbol of hate is insane, and only makes stunts like "it's ok to be white" all the more poignant. Clearly it's not ok in the eyes of some, and vice versa, having colored skin can excuse harassment and racism.
> The hat is the official merch of your current sitting president. The way it's treated as an overt symbol of hate is insane
Why? Hatred (as in the speech the cameraman was filming) is the overt policy of the President.
The emperor isn't naked, he just has a really bad hat - but we have to point out what we see, no matter how many people are wanting to intimidate us into not seeing it.
This article is complete partisan spin that spills a lot of ink mentioning completely orthogonal criticisms of people and events entirely unrelated to the event that occurred at The Lincoln Memorial...not an abortion clinic.
Here's the 1.5 hour recording of the event so you don't have to sit through some selectively edited hack job:
> This article is about mindless violence towards the media that's displayed and documented at Trumps rallys. It's not about antifa.
This is a single instance and it makes headlines. Antifa on the other hand have had dozens of large scale riots and targeted attacks but corporate media avoids painting them in a bad light. They're simply "protesters" rather than a mob.
> I don't know what media outlet is to Antifa, that is Fox News to the Right.
CNN is easily the most far-left news show. There's hundreds of videos on YouTube of the hoaxes, lies and biased news they've broadcast.
> But I'd welcome a discussion on what we can do to encourage a more fair and balanced media
There needs to be stronger anti-libel and anti-defamation laws. The lawsuits coming from the "MAGA kid" Nick Sandmann should a good barometer of whether or not the corporate media can truly be held accountable for their lies.
My guess at this point is that the media will continue to lose trust from the public because they can't ever be held accountable when they lie.
>Antifa on the other hand have had dozens of large scale riots and targeted attacks but corporate media avoids painting them in a bad light. They're simply "protesters" rather than a mob.
[citation needed]
>CNN is easily the most far-left news show. There's hundreds of videos on YouTube of the hoaxes, lies and biased news they've broadcast.
And there's videos of the Earth being flat, climate change being a "liberal hoax" and the Sandy Hook massacre being made up
If I might quote from an (at the time) controversial Sony ad "you can't believe everything you read on the internet, that's how World War 1 got started"
>There needs to be stronger anti-libel and anti-defamation laws. The lawsuits coming from the "MAGA kid" Nick Sandmann should a good barometer of whether or not the corporate media can truly be held accountable for their lies.
America is a very litigious society, compared to the rest of the world. I'd love to see the defense for the "MAGA kid" trying to explain that wearing that hat was not a deliberate act
You're not wrong; CNN is barely even left, let alone far left. I don't think a viewpoint can seriously be called "far left" without being explicitly opposed to capitalism. The farthest-left viewpoints you're likely to see on any of the mainstream cable news channels, even as objects of incredulity, are criticisms of underregulated capitalism and advocacy for expanded welfare programs.
> This isn't a false equivalency situation; both left and right are being pushed into division.
In this case, it is a false equivalency. At least in terms of Democrat and Republican.
Antifa is a fringe far-left group. They are not Democrats. They do not support Democrats. You don't see mainstream Democratic politicians supporting them.
The Republicans, on the other hand, have embraced the far-right fringe groups. You have the leader of the Republican party calling the press the "enemy of the people" and making jokes about attacking reporters.
This is one of those cases where both sides are not the same.
Antifa was started by far-left activists, but has support much closer to the center-left than the people that started it because it has a narrow focus that is fairly uncontroversial left of center and has mostly been fairly restrained, both in its methods and in maintaining focus without making Antifa about the extracurricular stances of it's core members.
I like to consider myself fairly far-left (at least as far as the Australian political spectrum goes)
But I still have no idea what "Antifa" actually stand for. Are they against Fascism? If so, I can get behind that. Nazism is a failed experiment and needs to be kept in the dustbin of history
All I know is right-wingers screech about "the left" and "antifa" while trying to defend being awful people
Antifa stands for anti-fascistic action. They don't just oppose fascism from the arm chair, they oppose it with violence where necessary, because they figure fascists use violence too. If not now, then certainly once they gain power, therefore use all means necessary to prevent that.
It's absolutely a case of the end justifying the means, and there's no doubt an anti-democratic aspect to it. It's driven by a fear for fascism and a perceived need to use extreme measures to stop it.
Some people argue that Antifa is itself fascist in a way, and if you consider how fascism uses (and stokes) fear for a common enemy to unite people in support of their ideology, there might be something to it. There's some very slippery slope there.
It seems fairly mainstream for Democrats to think people who advocate for a white ethno state ('the alt right') are everywhere, varying in their degree of support for violence towards the largely imaginary foes (who in reality could be anywhere from center left to center right).
The majority of the country have been polled and consistently agree with the President that the media is intentionally creating a divide and often lie to the people. Conservatives undoubtedly make up more of that number but both political sides clearly think along similar lines in this instance. This isn't a "fringe group" that hate the corporate media.
Subtlety: there are at least two groups who hate each other's corporate media. People at the Presidential rally(+) aren't going to denounce Fox as corporate media.
(+) is this a thing? Did all the other presidents do this?
Wait, watching the video, it appears it's a single guy who shoved the cameraman and was immediately restrained and thrown out by another supporter right behind him.
If we're going to be dramatic about the negative actions of a single guy, let's also equally credit the other man for defending good values.
Honestly, i've been to one of these rallies and i've also been to Berkeley when people were left handicapped by a raging mob who wanted to suppress the appearance of a speaker from the right.
Words have consequences, indeed. This is a very light form of radicalization or "stochastic terrorism": point a finger at people and declare them the enemy often enough, from a position of power, and someone will attack them.
So, there's kind of a point here; it's nonsensical to say that the call to "punch Nazis" isn't a call to violence. But this is why I put "from a position of power" in my original statement. The President declaring someone an enemy is very different from some randos on Twitter declaring someone an enemy. It's rather like the Chinese Army declaring Tianmen Square Man to be "confrontational" by standing in front of the tank.
(Anybody going to make the free speech defence for those people you cited?)
I'm not really expecting anyone on the right to realise that if they want to call for civility they need to police their side, starting from the top; but that's the best way to stop this escalating.
You think academia, the tech industry and mainstream media have no power? They have manipulated narratives to the point that people have supported unjust wars and unnecessary riots.
Saying "fake news is the enemy of the people" is not controversial. It's quite true. No calling out a Washington-area circle jerk that perpetuates false B.S. is not the same as Tianeman Square.
It's criticism. The President has every right to criticize his critics as his critics do him. Freedom of speech works both ways.
I don't, but in all fairness I did watch the clip cited above, and at the end there was a "and we will punch people in the face" comment to which the crowd raised an already frenzied jeer to an even higher level. I am sorry, but I reject a call to violence on both ends, and I don't see the above comment as only figurative, since there has been punching on both sides of the political fence.
Speaking as a non American, reading this thread, theres obviously a tremendous amount of division here.
What I would like to ask though, is this the America you want projecting to the outside world? The BBC is British, are they also fake news? If so, what reasonable means are there for the rest of the world to get this news.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, is that international, and domestic news are distinct. People are obviously more emotionally invested in domestic journalism. For me this is international news, it isn't fake news, in the same way as that natural disaster isn't fake news. These people aren't competing for my votes, I'm not paying their wages.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 104 ms ] threadThis is the same shit you see from "Antifa" on the left, and it's abhorrent regardless of the source. To pretend that both sides aren't getting increasingly violent is to reject reality. This isn't a false equivalency situation; both left and right are being pushed into division.
And it's the media that's doing it.
This article is about mindless violence towards the media that's displayed and documented at Trumps rallys. It's not about antifa.
I don't know what media outlet is to Antifa, that is Fox News to the Right. But I'd welcome a discussion on what we can do to encourage a more fair and balanced media and what we do to hold drunken louts like the gentleman in the article for abhorrent violence.
My handle is significant to me, and AFAIK there's no way to change your handle on HN. Though being honest, even if I were given the chance, I probably wouldn't change it.
I'm unsure if there's a mechanic to block some one on HN but if it does, I'd recommend you use it in this instance. Apologies that I can't be of any further help.
Also, would you change your username if I requested you to do so? (Perhaps I had a bad experience in the past which makes the word “Adam“ something I‘d rather not read)
http://www.indymedia.org/
But God forbid the kid smirk to ease the tension. What do we do to hold media accountable for painting false narratives and stoking the fires of tension, intentionally for hits and ratings?
Was he forced to wear the hat to the event?
Was there someone behind him at gunpoint forcing him to wear the hat?
The Covington case was naked woke hysteria, there is no way around it. Particularly because even after the details came out, people were still doubling down and making excuses for everyone else there.
The hat is the official merch of your current sitting president. The way it's treated as an overt symbol of hate is insane, and only makes stunts like "it's ok to be white" all the more poignant. Clearly it's not ok in the eyes of some, and vice versa, having colored skin can excuse harassment and racism.
Why? Hatred (as in the speech the cameraman was filming) is the overt policy of the President.
The emperor isn't naked, he just has a really bad hat - but we have to point out what we see, no matter how many people are wanting to intimidate us into not seeing it.
A good summary of this faux concern: https://www.salon.com/2019/01/22/defenders-of-the-maga-hat-y...
Here's the 1.5 hour recording of the event so you don't have to sit through some selectively edited hack job:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pFMZaw5f0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSkpPaiUF8s
Basically: the kid was entirely blameless, preyed upon by a racist native activist specifically because he was wearing a MAGA hat.
This is a single instance and it makes headlines. Antifa on the other hand have had dozens of large scale riots and targeted attacks but corporate media avoids painting them in a bad light. They're simply "protesters" rather than a mob.
> I don't know what media outlet is to Antifa, that is Fox News to the Right.
CNN is easily the most far-left news show. There's hundreds of videos on YouTube of the hoaxes, lies and biased news they've broadcast.
> But I'd welcome a discussion on what we can do to encourage a more fair and balanced media
There needs to be stronger anti-libel and anti-defamation laws. The lawsuits coming from the "MAGA kid" Nick Sandmann should a good barometer of whether or not the corporate media can truly be held accountable for their lies.
My guess at this point is that the media will continue to lose trust from the public because they can't ever be held accountable when they lie.
No, they haven't. This is untrue.
[citation needed]
>CNN is easily the most far-left news show. There's hundreds of videos on YouTube of the hoaxes, lies and biased news they've broadcast.
And there's videos of the Earth being flat, climate change being a "liberal hoax" and the Sandy Hook massacre being made up
If I might quote from an (at the time) controversial Sony ad "you can't believe everything you read on the internet, that's how World War 1 got started"
>There needs to be stronger anti-libel and anti-defamation laws. The lawsuits coming from the "MAGA kid" Nick Sandmann should a good barometer of whether or not the corporate media can truly be held accountable for their lies.
America is a very litigious society, compared to the rest of the world. I'd love to see the defense for the "MAGA kid" trying to explain that wearing that hat was not a deliberate act
Well, the defamation lawsuits eventually worked against Alex Jones.
Really? CNN has never struck me as particularly left.
In this case, it is a false equivalency. At least in terms of Democrat and Republican.
Antifa is a fringe far-left group. They are not Democrats. They do not support Democrats. You don't see mainstream Democratic politicians supporting them.
The Republicans, on the other hand, have embraced the far-right fringe groups. You have the leader of the Republican party calling the press the "enemy of the people" and making jokes about attacking reporters.
This is one of those cases where both sides are not the same.
Antifa was started by far-left activists, but has support much closer to the center-left than the people that started it because it has a narrow focus that is fairly uncontroversial left of center and has mostly been fairly restrained, both in its methods and in maintaining focus without making Antifa about the extracurricular stances of it's core members.
But I still have no idea what "Antifa" actually stand for. Are they against Fascism? If so, I can get behind that. Nazism is a failed experiment and needs to be kept in the dustbin of history
All I know is right-wingers screech about "the left" and "antifa" while trying to defend being awful people
It's absolutely a case of the end justifying the means, and there's no doubt an anti-democratic aspect to it. It's driven by a fear for fascism and a perceived need to use extreme measures to stop it.
Some people argue that Antifa is itself fascist in a way, and if you consider how fascism uses (and stokes) fear for a common enemy to unite people in support of their ideology, there might be something to it. There's some very slippery slope there.
(+) is this a thing? Did all the other presidents do this?
If we're going to be dramatic about the negative actions of a single guy, let's also equally credit the other man for defending good values.
Honestly, i've been to one of these rallies and i've also been to Berkeley when people were left handicapped by a raging mob who wanted to suppress the appearance of a speaker from the right.
Then I hope he sues you.
Or you're lying, either way piss poor of the BBC, manufacturing outrage or putting your cameraman in known danger.
https://coed.com/2019/01/22/snl-writer-sarah-beattie-blowjob...
Or...how many times has Trump and his supporters been referred to as Nazis...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79TRDRPGx34
Like that time Samantha Bee called a stage 4 brain cancer Trump supporter out for sporting a "Nazi haircut" after chemo:
http://outsetnetwork.com/2017/03/09/samantha-bee-mocks-contr...
Followed by endless calls to punch Nazis.
This is just three lazy examples. There's hundreds of examples like this in pop media.
(Anybody going to make the free speech defence for those people you cited?)
I'm not really expecting anyone on the right to realise that if they want to call for civility they need to police their side, starting from the top; but that's the best way to stop this escalating.
Saying "fake news is the enemy of the people" is not controversial. It's quite true. No calling out a Washington-area circle jerk that perpetuates false B.S. is not the same as Tianeman Square.
It's criticism. The President has every right to criticize his critics as his critics do him. Freedom of speech works both ways.
> point a finger at people and declare them the enemy often enough, from a position of power, and someone will attack them.
The point is that there is no explicit£ call for violence, yet just the same it breeds hatred that inevitably results* in violence.
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/23/entertainment/madonna-whi...
https://youtu.be/07-VvcsrUIE
I don’t know what to do about the escalation of rhetoric and action in this country. But let’s not pretend it’s one-sided.
What I would like to ask though, is this the America you want projecting to the outside world? The BBC is British, are they also fake news? If so, what reasonable means are there for the rest of the world to get this news.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, is that international, and domestic news are distinct. People are obviously more emotionally invested in domestic journalism. For me this is international news, it isn't fake news, in the same way as that natural disaster isn't fake news. These people aren't competing for my votes, I'm not paying their wages.
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