Arkle wrote:Protecting a racist piece of garbage who gets away with spreading anti-Black pseudoscience with a book that was discredited 20 years ago?
Ok. Let's assume, for the moment, that Charles Murray is, in fact, a racist piece of garbage. Does he deserve beating? Does every racist deserve a beating? Who determines who is and isn't a racist, and when they have and have not been sufficiently beaten? Do you actually have to be a racist yourself, or is merely agreeing to, say, moderate a debate where a racist may be speaking just cause for getting punched?
I'm no pacifist, and I recognize that while violence is always the last resort....sometimes, you reach the last resort. When Nazis are walking through your neighborhood with torches, it just might be necessary to get down and dirty. But I'm honestly puzzled as to why it was necessary at Middlebury or Berkeley. I'm hoping you can enlighten me.
So I have cause to doubt the credibility of her story.
Great, bring on the facts. You have the greatest source of information ever devised by mankind at your very fingertips. Please, show me your side of the story. I'm eager to hear it.
For what's worth, this is the framework I'm operating in.
Here's Allison's own account of the evening. For the record, she doesn't particularly agree with Charles Murray. But she's an academic, who believes that scholarship is settled with debate.
Here's long but thorough Politico article on what went on that night and how. Both sources are really quite sympathetic to the left.
Do you have any actual evidence to support your skepticism? Or has the inability to recognize basic facts, which we see so often on the American right these days, begun to spread to the left as well?
Meanwhile, we have the very deaths caused by the Right. So again, we come back to stupidity.
Yes, the right has the higher body count.
And they're losing, at least for the moment. These two facts are not unrelated. In the modern American political sphere, being associated with violence is absolutely toxic for a movement. Which is why 'not punching people' is such a fantastic position to take. It's not only the legal, ethical, and moral choice, it's also the
politically smart choice.