Originally Posted by roachboy

the false equivalence concerning this "call to violence" stuff is pretty obvious: even if one accepts that it's somehow coherent for conservatives to point to stokley charmichael as a counterexample in 2011 (which presupposes---shall we say---relaxed standards for coherent argument) there was no point---ever----where he or anyone else "on the left" in the arbitrary gallery of figureheads adduced for red-baiting purposes at the moment had the kind of saturation media exposure that contemporary neo-fascist discourse has. period. on that basis there is NO comparison between the danger posed by contemporary neo-facist calls to political violence and those of people who were active on the left in the united states 40 years ago. the comparison is absurd, yet another example of conservative metaphysics---all fast and loose with context, fixate like a crackhead on some purely formal resemblance, repeat the claim over and over as if repetition gets rid of the speciousness of the claim. and this should be tolerated because hey, it's just my opinion man. i'm entitled to indulge shabby superficial thinking. it's my right as an american. blah blah blah.