Allegedly the guy who shot Charlie Kirk was a right extremist who’s take was Kirk was too moderate.
So far I think it’s a bet gain for democracy though.
It’s an interesting hypothesis
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Matombo@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
“Right extremists are defending Democracy”
Just 2 weeks ago and I still haven’t recovered from hearing that in person.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
plyth@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Wasn’t that assumed because of the family, but he actually turned left?
Utah County prosecutor Jeffrey Gray said that Robinson’s mother told investigators that her son had become more political over the last year and had started to “lean more to the left, becoming more pro-gay and trans rights–oriented”.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Fair enough.
This does not support my hypothesis
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My hypothesis is that the reason we’ve been seeing a lot of significant assassination attempts come from people who had been far right but are recently disillusioned or having a leftward turn is that the right has been priming and training itself for political violence for years (since about Ruby Ridge and Waco) and been engaged in the behavior they’re justifying their training and rhetoric by saying they need to violently stop governments from acting this way. So you have people ready to do violence, prepared to stop overreaching or totalitarian governments, and when these people stop being blinded by the propaganda, they start to see that behavior in their party and the ones who were actually ready to do violence do it.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
this could be because they understand “democracy” completely differently, though honestly it’s probably just a cover for “our way of life” or “our interests”
like when the US goes to the middle east to spread “democracy”, they’re not actually spreading a better quality of life for the people, just violence and bloodshed. could be that your acquaintance meant it in that way.