[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Alf

If the right was committing acts of violence and criminal damage, I'd be with you condemning them, but at the moment, they're not, but the left are.

And of course it's a bunch of yobs, a big bunch mind. But those yobs are lefties, and I don't see any prominent leftie speakers condemning them.

Who isn't hypocritical from time to time, I think we all are.

There's enough extremist right wing acts of violence to choose from if I wanted to paint an entire way of thinking as violent. It's not liberal pro lifers that attack Abortion Clinics, it wasn't a 'leftie' that shot up Charleston Church or attacked the Overland Jewish Community Centre and they aren't responsible for other incidents of Right Wing Terrorism over the past few years.

To balance things out, I looked up recent incidents of US based Left Wing Terrorism but there's not much to write about beyond the Cold War. In terms of domestic terrorism, it's Right Wing terrorism that's been leading the charge in recent times.

So, if we play your game of tarring entire ideologies with an extremist brush then the Right still come off worse. It's just silly to paint either side as violent based on the actions of a minority, especially considering you are picking and choosing your 'facts' to suit your own version of what happened.