The assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has turbocharged the conversation — and fears — around political violence in the U.S. And, more than perhaps any other recent high-profile incident, it has fed claims that far-left extremists are primarily responsible for the worsening environment.
“From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a health care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others, radical-left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives,” President Trump said, just hours after Kirk was killed.
I get looking at terrorism as a simple data point and then saying left wing terrorism is on the rise. When there’s more violence then it’s indicative of underlying problems.
But most of the time the conversation implies people need to clean up their act. Politicians must stop using charged language. People must chill out.
In that vein, I’m curious how much left wing violence is real. When people are getting shot down for trying to get abortions, getting put on lists…
That’s like playing half a chord progression.
But when you fight back, that’s also a terrorism. Hitting the bully is still violence, and can’t we all just chill?? Lmao