Bullying is free speecb

[Nay_Sayer]

Can someone translate the op into English? My Klingon is rusty

[Rev. Rye]

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Perhaps on some level, politics has more or less devolved into bullying, maybe it was always like that on some level, but to single out the Democrats (especially when we’ve got a Republican president who’s acted like a wrestling heel from the day he announced his campaign) is fundamentally dishonest. Especially as the Republican strategy has essentially become bullying more naked than it’s been since the first Klan.

And taking the LA riots without even bothering to take into account the racial tensions that remain to this day (and the numerous race riots that happened long before that, many of which were largely committed by white people on black people; see The Knick, Season 1, Episode 7. It’s about a real race riot in 1900 where a black man kills a cop who tried to arrest his wife for soliciting and it causes a full-blown riot with white people looking for black blood, and City Hall refusing to protect those citizens most in danger, and bear in mind, this is more or less what happened IRL except I don’t think the cop propositioned her himself) is fundamentally dishonest. It doesn’t take a genius to show that the riots (especially lashing out against people who had nothing to do with Rodney King’s beating, including Korean convenience stores) were not only immoral, but counterproductive, but your analysis leaves out crucial parts of the narrative.

Indeed the riots were not about one incident with one organization it was a frustration within the city that had been boiling for decades .

Yeah, race riots seem to always be a response not just to one incident, but the culmination of racial tensions that ends up tipping into violence after one particular incident. There could always be exceptions, but it seems to follow a pattern: years of racial tensions between (usually) black and white people, then one high-profile incident ends up inciting violence. Earlier (especially before the Civil Rights Era), it's usually violence against a white person by a black one that sends the white people into a frenzy (although there are early counter-examples, like the 1935 and 1943 Harlem riots, Nat Turner's rebellion, and the 1917 Houston riots), but now, it's more often done by black people, and, while it's clearly morally ambiguous if you're being incredibly charitable, it's not hard to see where it comes from when put into context.

Also, I just noticed the OP spelled it "Speecb." So, bullying may be "free speecb," depending on what "speecb" actually means.

[Brian37]

People tend to forget that having the right to free speech doesn't exempt them from the consequences of said free speech.

The POTUS falsely playing victim when he is the one in power, when nobody forced him to run, is absurd. 

No other president prior, not democrat or republican has ever acted like he has on a daily basis as if our government institutions were guests on Jerry Springer. 

I agree, if the asshole didn't want the backlash, then he shouldn't have run, and most certainly should not act like a petty narcissistic bully.