CDZ 80 Year Old "Coldcocks" Anti-Trump Protestor: What If Tables Were Turned?

[320 Years of History]

Do we agree:

1 the old man should not of hit him

2 the black man was out of line himself but was no threat as he was being escorted out

3 Trump encouraged violence. I thought I even read after the fact Trump or his team offered to pay the old man's legal fees.

Yes, I agree, except for the bold bits...The reason for the exception: I don't know whether the man was "out of line" in his own right or was "out of line" by being among the group of others who were "out of line."

I know Mr. Jones was with three other people who were protesting. I don't know the nature of their protest. Were they, including Mr. Jones, merely there with anti-Trump signs? Were they, including Mr. Jones, shouting to drown out the person who was speaking? I don't know the answers to those and similar questions; Mr. Jones' specific role is unclear to me.

What I do know is that my assessment of the matter would be no different were, as the thread title asks, "the tables turned." While I don't at all have an issue with folks appearing at a political event benefitting a candidate with whom they disagree and quietly but noticeably protesting, I do have a problem with them taking their protest to the level of being disruptive, that is, denying scheduled/intended speakers at the event their right of expression. It's not that I see the protest as being "out of line;" it's that I see disruptive protest as being "out of line."

 

[jwoodie]

Therefore, we should all accede to being muzzled?

No, not at all. We should all be aware enough of the hard lessons learned by others who were beguiled by seeming reasonable, well intentioned and aspiring "top dog" leaders, be they in our own nation's history or in others'. We all should well understand high level human nature so that we can recognize minor differences and see them for what they are, minor, that is, that those details affect the "trees" but not the "forest." Lastly, we all must in understanding human nature at a high level does not change, or at least has not in literally thousands of years, which means that given sufficient power, at the individual level, a despotic-seeming leader is more likely to change for the worse not the better.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.
― Plato​

President Obama has been ruling by executive fiat for the past 7 years, with a compliant Senate that has surrendered its legislative authority to him, yet you are more concerned with a "despotic-seeming" candidate who is running for the Republican nomination. It seems to me that you are placing greater importance on form than substance.

 

[tinynascarfan]

Lerat's say a KKK protester showed up at an NAACP meeting holding a sign that said "F--- You, N------." In response, an elderly Black Man takes a swing at the younger protester. Would you have the same sense of outrage against the NAACP as has been expressed against Trump? If not, why not?

I hadn't thought about that. But i'll admit, I don't feel outrage at the old white man, I thought it was funny. Just as I would think that an old black man hitting a young KKK member would be funny too.

I mean, it actually looked like, what I would call a 'love tap' and if a young man cant take a punch from an 80 year old, then he should give up his go-nads.

 

[Gracie]

I don't see a vid.