Would you somehow have considered this tweet worse if it was written by someone right leaning?

[Sasahara]

This tweet was written in June, by a blue checkmark user (who are Democrats online safety expert) before Musk bought Twitter, so it was still ran by whoever ran the site before him.

[Anonymous]

No. The words and the sentiment behind them would not change no matter who tweeted this. It’s the people reading this stuff who want to spin it one way or the other based on their partisan beliefs and personal bias.

[BlueScorpio]

They are evoking violence against someone publicly, that is how people get themselves in terrible situations or worse killed.

[goaded]

What violence?

[BlueScorpio]

@goaded read what the post says. They're saying they'll never have peace in public again, that mostly means they will be publicly harassed where ever they go. If you ask me harassment is violence or can become violent.

[goaded]

Sounds more like expression of free speech to me.

[BlueScorpio]

@goaded you can say whatever you want but that don't mean consequences won't follow you behind.

[BCRanger10]

Me? No. The media? If you're a conservative, all you have to do is just sneeze and they'll claim you're inciting violence.

[NamerOfStars]

No, that's deliberate incitement to harassment and possibly even violence. Disgusting no matter who did it.

[Anonymous]

I live in America but I'm not American. Sometimes the politics here are just crazy and scary.

[goaded]

Yes, because the right wing tend to shoot people they don't like. Having someone unarmed shout at you in public is far less troubling.

[Sasahara]

They do not. Another short follow up quetion, you would, expect those who defended Biden for calling all MAGA people fascists because Trump said something similar, to defend a Republican making a similar threat as the Democrats online safety expert made here, right? For the sake of equality? Or do you think they don't care about equality and feel that the Democrats online safety expert somehow is exempt from having to meet their own standards

[goaded]

I can't quite work out what you mean by your short follow-up question, but if you're talking about the quote at the top where the person is recommending a first amendment response against public figures who have stripped away an established right from women, it's not the same as people (Trump included) talking about second amendment responses, is it?

"We should talk to them" is obviously not as bad as "we should shoot them", is it?

"New research, based on almost 900 politically-motivated plots and murders in the US since 1994, found only one person's death in the last 25 years was linked to "antifa" or anti-fascists, and the person who died was the attacker.

In comparison, over that same period, 329 murders were linked to the far-right.

When the label was broadened from anti-fascists to left-wing violence, it found 21 victims had been killed since 2010, compared to 117 in right-wing violence in the same time period."
www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-extremists-kill-329-since-1994-antifa-killed-none-2020-7

[Sasahara]

I just ment that I was asking a short follow up question. Since people let Biden get away with claiming all MAGA people were fascists because Trump supposedly said something similar, then obviously Right leaning people should expect to also get away with saying things similar to what leftists has said, right? I'm just treating both sides as equal.

[goaded]

Except shooting and shouting are not equal, are they? So neither is calling for either.

[Sasahara]

Well if a Right leaning person were to say the same thing as the tweet says they would not have mentioned any shooting. They would be calling for the exact same thing.

[goaded]

That is a fair point. You're quite right. I was thinking more about the kinds of tweets that right-wingers post than if one had posted exactly that tweet. I don't consider the tweet in itself to be particularly bad.

The point is, though, that we'd never see a tweet like that from a right-winger because all the noteworthy right-wing tweets are talking about things that didn't happen (Roe really was overturned, there wasn't massive voter fraud in 2020, vaccines are far less deadly than covid), and promising far worse consequences (e. g. "Second Amendment remedies"). Not to mention the people who act on those threats, like the people who attempted to kidnap a governor, or the guy who attacked FBI offices.