From the Washington Post:
Violent memes and messages surging on far-left social media, a new report finds
Months of civil unrest have coincided with a significant rise in social media posts critical of police that sometimes are laced with violent themes, including calls to destroy property and attack officers, according to research released Monday morning.
The report, by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), which previously has studied right-wing violence from groups such as the “boogaloo boys,” warns that some left-wing groups have embraced similar social media tactics, including memes and humorous catchphrases, to spread their messages and possibly help coordinate offline activity. The researchers pointed to possible signs of such coordination associated with riots in Seattle, Portland and other cities on July 25, involving fires, looting and property damage.
To understand the bullshit that is coming next, it is important to understand that for the Left, words often have the opposite meaning to them that they have to the rest of us.
They get this from reading 1984 as a how-to manual.
For them, someone on the right making a Pepe Meme is violence but a goon in Black Bloc throwing a homemade bomb at police is free speech. White silence is violence but looting a Louis Vuitton store is peaceful protesting.
The report acknowledges that left-wing political actors, including those who embrace the antifa movement, have been responsible for far less violence than white supremacists and other right-wing ones — a finding consistent with the conclusions of law enforcement and other threat analysts.
See? Who was trying to burn Portland and Seattle to the ground for months on end? Who threw bombs and water bottles at police in Chicago? Who has been wielding lasers trying to blind people? Who has been tearing down statues?
One asshole runs over someone in Charlottesville back in 2017 and there is an epidemic of Right-Wing violence. Tens of millions of dollars in damage is done during riots and it’s nothing.
Rita Katz, director of the SITE Intelligence Group, said there are stark differences in the types of direct action promoted online by left- and right-wing extremists.
“It is overwhelmingly the far right — not the far left — that makes direct incitements for terrorist attacks and celebrates mass shooters as heroes to the movement,” she said. “Far-left activity usually doesn’t extend beyond destruction of property — that being arson against police vehicles, sabotaging infrastructure and similar activities.”
Property destruction and arson are not violence according to the Left. That’s how they get away with saying such obvious bullshit.
[Socialist Rifle Association communications director, Lucas Hubbard] said left-wing activists — who have been targeted repeatedly, including by the president — are preparing themselves lest they become “victims of terrorism.”
While he renounced violence, he echoed right-wing actors in predicting it: “When the election happens, there’s going to be a surge of violence no matter who wins,” Hubbard said.
Gun owning Leftists preparing to cause havoc after the election.
I’ve covered how Grosskreutz was clearly engaged in the attempted premeditate murder of Kyle Rittenhouse but claimed self-defense, the Socialist Rifle Association is preparing to do the same thing.
But the researchers found the growing use of memes a worrying sign and argue that the spread of dehumanizing rhetoric on the left could set the stage for more serious incidents by what the report called “network-enabled mobs.”
And that’s the kicker. They have been dehumanizing Trump supporters and police. They are preparing for something big and something terrible.
The Left has never come up with an idea for a utopia that doesn’t require “kill everyone who disagrees with us” as the first step.
It’s become so overwhelming that finally, the WaPo has caught on a little bit, and they can’t even denounce it without first giving a whole bunch of “but much Right-wing violence.”
From this, you know the shit is going to hit the fan.
Much of the “Right Wing Violence is worse than left wing violence” comes down to a report that Politico got a hold of (leaked to somebody that then handed it to them. Said leak happening 3 times).
In the actual report it stated that there were 16 domestic terrorist events through the end of August. Of those 16, 8 were left wing terrorists events and 8 were right wing terrorist events.
According to Politico, the results of those 16 events lead to 49 killed by right-wing terrorists and a much smaller number by left wing terrorists.
Politico either did not list the 16 events or I didn’t plow through that much of their reporting and the actual report was only quotes, so again I don’t have the the information. We don’t know why the groups were labeled left or right. We don’t know what type of events were selected.
The real problem comes from the fact that EVERY domestic terrorist event gets laid on the heads of the right, even if the person that did it wasn’t of the right. Some yahoo with white skin shoots a black cop and he’s a racist white supremacist. Some yahoo with black skin tries to burn down a building full of folks and it is a mostly peaceful protest with a few white supremacist agitators trying to get the peaceful protesters to look bad.
There is a book titled _Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry_ which lists hundreds of cases where violence follows black gatherings. And it contrasts it. Things like a weekend of “bikers” descending on a town and the only violence is a couple of bar fights and no raise of crime. A “black biker convention” happens in a town and violence goes way up with multiple people being sent to the ER for gun or knife wounds. Shops are vandalized and there are group looting events.
But these events are presented in the local media as “They were provoked…”
The same happens with left vs right. The left is “provoked” to violence, the right “seeks out violence”. The right “antagonizes” the left by flying big US Flags and driving through the center of town. The left “occupies” or “protests”.
It is sickening.
The first axiom of politics never goes away. It is always in effect.
“The offense is not the action being taken, it is the political affiliation of the person taking action that causes the offense.”
And, even when the offensive action is so egregious that is has to be acknowledged by the left, they temper it by claiming the other side is so much worse.
What right-wing violence? I haven’t seen or heard of any. Any right-wing attacks on cops? No. Any right-wing looting, arson, obstruction of traffic? Nope. If there was any, CNN et al., would play the footage to death. Did I miss something? Am I wrong? Please let me know.
Pepe Memes hurt their feelings and white silence is violence.
The WaPo doesn’t publish anything by accident, so you need to ask what they want to accomplish. The answer must be “help Biden”, so the question is how does this help him?
I think there are at least two things in play here:
1. There’s a civil war going on inside the Democratic Party, between “Moderates” like Biden/Hillary/Pelosi/Schumer and the Communists. WaPo is backing the “Moderates” and is trying to position an acceptable crackdown on the Communist’s street muscle which is dangerous to Biden and polling badly for Democrats in down-ticket races.
2. They still probably think that the election can get stolen for Biden and he will be the guy who needs to restore order. This is Battlefield Preparation.
Also (3) they have forgotten the 25th Amendment, and/or believe that the Communists (Harris & Sanders & friends) aren’t going to invoke it within months of a Biden “election”.