Offsetting

On the one hand, I see stories like this Dash people protesting at the home have a school board member…

…and point out that what they’re doing isn’t really a whole lot better than what John Thompson did.

On the other hand, I read stories like this, and wonder if a little well focused fear wouldn’t be a very good idea for a lot of public officials?

11 thoughts on “Offsetting

  1. You either believe the rules apply to everyone or they apply to none. If Thompson and the DFL create new rules for protesting then I don’t see what your problem is.

    It has nothing to do with the grief that woman is taking in Shakopee (although maybe a different group of protestors should visit the house of that school board member).

  2. The Kommissars at the National control/slush fund collectors of school boards demanded that anyone protesting Critical Race Theory at school board meetings, be treated as domestic terrorists. Of course, the p.o.s. AG dutifully complied, by turning the FBI into the Gestapo, to go after U.S. citizens. Funny! These same dick heads that are cheering this action on, are the ones that criticized Trump for sending federal officers to Portland to, you know, defend against the destruction of a federal building by thugs. They don’t care that the Feds have no business being the left’s own private army, further violating state rights. Funnier still, Garland’s son in law is involved in providing the CRT edumacational materials to schools. How convenient!

  3. Sauce for the goose . . .

    Elementary game theory: if the Left abandons the old rules of civility and decorum, the Right must abandon them as well, or it will lose every contest by default. Screeching about it on the Left and tut-tutting about it on the Right doesn’t change dynamic. Only a concerted effort by both sides to police their own people, will change the result. As we’ve seen in the Sinema incident, the Left isn’t willing to do that; therefore, the Right shouldn’t, either.

    The worst possible response is to send in the goons to punish people exercising their First Amendment rights. When dissent is driven underground, it changes from disagreement to resentment to revenge and that leads to violent retribution. That anger can cause school board members’ houses to spontaneously burst into flame at night. That’s illegal, it’s immoral, and it’s common in Third World countries where there is no other recourse. These people are playing with fire. What will it take to bring them to their senses?

  4. Joe Doakes wrote:
    Elementary game theory: if the Left abandons the old rules of civility and decorum, the Right must abandon them as well, or it will lose every contest by default. Screeching about it on the Left and tut-tutting about it on the Right doesn’t change dynamic.

    Jonah Goldberg disagrees. Literally. He thinks it is better to be right and dead than incorrect and alive.
    Goldberg lives in DC, but think he has his finger tip on the pulse of America because he spends a few weeks in Alaska every year and because he takes an annual road trip from DC to the West Coast.
    Talking about “cocktail parties” is so 20th century. These days, you discover whom a person considers his peers by knowing which private school his kids attend.

  5. Rethinking my comment, it only applies to two equally willing gamers.

    The Left is willing to keep ratcheting up the pressure, confident the Right is unwilling to do more than issue stern warnings against going too far. But there is no ‘too far’ if the Right does nothing more than issue stern warnings. There is only a ‘too far’ if the Right starts fighting back.

    Which is exactly what the Left wants, because then they can say, “See, see? We told you they were violent domestic terrorists. Now we have no choice but to disenfranchise/confine/kill them all, to protect our children.”

    That worries me because I can imagine someone getting fed up and burning down a school board member’s house, or running over a Black Lives Matter protester in the streets, or shooting an illegal alien running a child sex trafficing ring, which would trigger the overwhelming response and then there’s no telling where we go – to the camps or to the barricades.

    The worst part is wanting to believe the Left is not outright evil, they are simply ignorant, they don’t understand how wrong their actions are; but being unable to convince myself that’s true.

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  7. A couple of tar and feather incidents would have a major change of behavior outcomes.

  8. A couple of tar and feather incidents would have a major change of behavior outcomes.

    Ah… the good ol’ days…

  9. and point out that what they’re doing isn’t really a whole lot better than what John Thompson did.

    The only people who think he did anything wrong in Hugo, are conservatives. No one on the left truly thinks he did anything wrong. They may say so in a public setting to convice/distract the low IQ crowd. Deep down inside? They were spiritually, symbolicially right there along side him, helping him smash the white privilege patriarchy.

    This is called fighting fire with fire and it is one of the only ways anything will change. The only other way things like this will change? When they experience financial pain. Which means, in this case, GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF THE G-D PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

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