Christine Blasey Ford Can’t Return Home Due To ‘Unending’ Threats, Lawyers Say
We are told on here daily that only the left engages in such actions...yet here we are.
Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who publicly accused now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, has not been able to return to her home and faces a near-constant stream of threats, her attorneys said in an interview on Sunday.
But how many on the left have actually been accosted by mobs? I’m sure she’s receiving death threats, sadly that’s the double edged sword aspect of social media...But the GOP just got doxed...by a democratic employee in Washington. 300 rioters got arrested in one weekend alone. There are a handful of GOP senators out there who haven’t been accosted by mobs. That’s not even including right leaning figure heads whether they work for the administration, or just pundits, or whatever. They don’t even have to be on the right anymore to face the wrath of the left. We’ve seen plenty of people on the left have to face down mobs for not going with the current dogma. A freaking Bernie Sanders supporting professor (Brett Weinstein) was mobbed by his own students for saying that making white students stay home for the day was racist. If you’re on the left, and say anything remotely redeeming about the right, they’re coming after you. We’ve even seen full grown men throw drinks on kids for the sin of wearing a MAGA hat. Mind you, basically everyone on the right, in any way involved with the Kavanaugh vote (including his family), is receiving death threats too. And if someone were to do an analysis, I’m sure they are receiving a great deal more than Ford. That would be totally consistent with anytime anyone has done analysis on this sort of thing.
It’s not a good trend to see these death threats...however, NO ONE ON THE RIGHT IS CALLING FOR HARRASING ANYBODY ON THE OTHER SIDE. No one on the right is calling for the intensification of the mobs, they are not excusing or turning a blind eye to clearly violent rioters. There is nothing of that sort that we are seeing from left, to a very scary degree. The left is actually paying for people to do this. CNN anchors are excusing this. Legislators on the left are calling in their constituents to do this. So with that in mind, I think it’s pretty dishonest to point out death threats against Ford (which are bad, but you can’t control everyone), vs what the left is actually calling for.
Thank you for your post, it was well thought out and civil.
This thread did just about what I expected it to do, some saying there is no proof, others saying she deserves whatever she gets.
While the left is more vocal and out front with it right now, I suspect that is the by-product of having lost the election. Had those three states that decided the election by less than a half of a percentage point went the other way, things might be very different.
In another thread right now someone who was on this forum crying about no proof is talking about the Clinton pizza sex ring, a thing there is no proof for and a thing that a right wing nut job thought was real and shot up the pizza joint.
This is not as isolated to one side as many wish to pretend.
It isn’t isolated, for sure. But the disparity between the sides is astounding, both in frequency and degree. And what is also astounding is how much it’s being condoned and even called for by major figure heads on the left. There are some on the left who condemn, I can think of two (Schumer, Beto), but almost universally everywhere else it’s ignored, excused, or promoted. There was this whole civil war hubbub going around about 4 months ago or so. I discounted that pretty quickly. After this weekend, I am actually concerned. I only saw calls from the left to turn up the intensity, and I don’t see a way to do that without it turning into criminal harassment, and even flat out violence. Rand Paul’s wife wrote a very good op-Ed appealing to civility, asking questions like what happens if GOP retains control of the house + senate, and RBG croaks...it is not going to be pretty. This was over a judge, with 36 year old sexual assault allegations without any corroborating evidence. Just hearing the nonsensical rhetoric alone, I don’t think I’ve ever been this concerned.
Also, that pizza guy didn’t shoot up the place, he just went in armed. As misguided, and as incredibly stupid it was...it was at least a nobal thing he tried to attempt, even if it was vigilantism. I mean he was convinced there was a child sex ring going on, and nobody was doing anything about it. If there was an event to go vigilante on, if that was a real thing, we’d probably be calling him a hero. Also, no one got hurt in that (I’m pretty sure). Again, extremely stupid (why anybody still listens to Jones now is beyond my comprehension)...but there was at least better justification for taking those measures than what we see coming from the left, either through the riots, mobs, antifa, whatever. Especially more so than the psycho who almost killed 15 or so members of the gop legislature. Had what’s his name not been in the line of succession, they all would have most likely been killed. Imagine that scenario for a second.
Anyway, I’m honestly concerned now, and that’s not a fake “just trying to exaggerate emotion to make a point” thing either. The right shouldn’t ignore the bad actors on their side, but they certainly do not encourage it, and ALL of the rights major figure heads have condemned such actions. I’ll put it this way, I’m not going to exert too much energy bailing water (on the stupid from the right ignoring such things) when the ship is headed straight for an iceberg.