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LightSnake posted...

It's very obnoxious when the double standards are pointed out, you keep doing this "well actually" thing and ignore the hypocrisy while attempting to strip all context away.

Then I think you're misreading what I'm saying.

Is there a double standard about Kirk's death? Yes. Republicans are A-OK with mocking the deaths of people they don't like, but immediately reach for their fainting couches the second someone dares turn the spotlight on one of their own. I'm against that, as are you.

The difference is that I'm advocating a different solution. My view is that the double standard should be eliminating by enforcing that mocking anyone's murder should be a fireable offence. Your view appears to be that the double standard should be eliminating by allowing people to mock murder victims.

I don't think that's a good road to go down.

LightSnake posted...

Kirk did not shy away from violence. Not only did he consider the deaths "worth it" to justify the Second Amendment, he stoked hate and violence against minorities. Now some of those minorities are, in fact, happy a man who believed they should be exterminated is no longer among us and the government is weaponizing its resources to punish them for it, as well as panicky private institutions that fear being targeted by the state while right wingers who regularly celebrate violence go unpunished.

Again, is the problem here that left wingers should be allowed to mock murder victims and celebrate their killings without consequence? Or is the problem that right wingers in influential positions do so and get away with it?

Me, I think the second one is the problem. If you do too, then why are you advocating for more of it?

LightSnake posted...

This is not some "same thing both sides" nonsense and it is very tiresome you refuse to acknowledge that.

Never said it was and I'm not even sure which part of my post you're objecting to with that.