Current Events > this civility politics discussion is just so confusing to me personally

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the whole thing just seems confused really

for one thing, it is conflating a lot of different stuff or at least it seems that way to me.

like, the people who politely asked Sanders to leave the Red Hen, how is that lacking in civility? Being civil is about your tone, so the heckling and such is one thing, but the business refusing service has nothing to do with those incidents it seems to me

but even those people who are heckling, it is weird the way people are talking about it as some kind of response to Trump's tone and rhetoric. But a symmetrical response to Trump's tone and rhetoric would be for people to be making dick jokes about Miller and giving them dumb nicknames like Nutty Nielsen or something. I don't think that is the same thing, either

like you can think heckling people in public when they're off the clock is bad, but I don't understand the portrayal of these things as being the same or whatever. is it not clear that the motivator for this spat of public harassment is the fact that a lot of people are really upset about this thing at the border. it isn't about tone at all?
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anyway this is just a stream of consciousness I had, sorry that I forgot to tag it as politics
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Yeah, framing it as some sort of mirror of Trumps tone, rather than a natural reaction to the abhorrence of his administration, is not the correct tact to take
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Framing it as being uncivil is weird to me. At this point, I don't know what counts as being civil to those who are on that talking point
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