Comment by MollyR | Hacker News Reader

Comment by MollyR | Hacker News Reader

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Are you saying we are in a civil war ? I dont want to believe it, but . .

Republicans were shot at by an alt-left radical. Scalise was in the ICU.

Another alt-left radical Clayton Carter murdered a GOP committee member in front of his wife.

Mainstream Media is completely politicized

An alt-right radical murdered Heather Heyer a protester.

Today a missouri state senator Nadal called for the assasination of a sitting us president. It also trended on twitter. Twitter did nothing.

The only thing that gives me hope of deescalation is both the right and left media is finally denouncing violence on both sides.

CNN pundits and FOX pundits are all denouncing ANTIFA and the alt-left, and the alt-right and racists.

"Alt-left" is a fabricated term that does not refer to a movement. It creates a false equivalency between white supremacists and people who protest them.

So would you describe the person who shot Scalise as mainstream left then?

There have always been deranged lunatics. The question is whether he was part of or influenced by a larger movement, which doesn't seem to be the case. Similarly, do you have anyone defending his actions the way some of the neo-Nazi groups have?

As a comparison, Timothy McVeigh was quickly condemned by just about everyone and is often used as an example of a lone wolf. This guy will be remembered as a [thankfully less successful] left-wing counterpart.

Did he self-identify as alt-left? Literally nobody identifies as alt-left. Unless he did, it's irrelevant to my comment.

He self identified as left.

Exactly. Alt-left is a term made up by literal white supremacists to make violent leftist terrorists look like they're a broad, organized movement. They use it to excuse themselves for the violence their side commits. It gives them non sequiturs to distract in conversation, as you and the root comment successfully did.

"The alt-right didn’t invent ‘alt-left.’ Liberals did."[0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/0...

Right.

http://www.snopes.com/2017/08/17/is-the-alt-left-a-real-thin...

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