Monday, January 11, 2021

'Our First Martyr.' How Ashli Babbitt Is Being Turned Into a Far-Right Recruiting Tool

 https://time.com/5928249/ashli-babbitt-capitol-extremism/

“The most salient thing for me is the degree to which your bread-and-butter GOP supporter, who fills out rallies and events, seem to be intermingling with extreme far-right factions: accelerationists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, people who believe there is no political solution at all,” says Michael Hayden, an investigator at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks militia and far-right extremist activity. On Jan. 6, Hayden says, it became apparent how much those “soft barriers” had collapsed, allowing extremists to leverage a larger crowd to carry out their own agenda, using shared outrage over the lie that the election had been stolen from them.

 

6 comments:

  1. Not supporting or justifying them - how many people were killed after Floyd was killed? A number of blm and police were killed in the mayhem that followed

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  2. There are several videos posted of Ashli Babbit being shot. From what I can tell, she seems to have been attempting climb through the broken window of a door. She gets hit by the bullet and tumbles backwards.

    It's been reported she was warned to back off before she was shot.

    I think there will be many more examples of people being Moser Nefesh before this is over. People online are reporting how the rank-and-file are riled up by the Left using the actions of a few to justify painting the whole Right as insurrectionists. Losing access to Trump via Twitter has left a vacuum being filled by extremists.

    I predict massive mayhem at the inauguration. People are inspired by the examples of those who risked arrest or worse to take over the Capitol.

    I don't like it. One cop has died, perhaps from injuries he sustained. Others were seriously injured. Another killed himself. One protester was trampled/smothered/crushed and died.

    This is not good and only getting worse.

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  3. Stop it, Kalonymous! Just stop it.

    No comparison. Those were peaceful deaths.

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  4. The media shtick is that she deserved it because she was a right winger, but Floyd was a victim of white fascists, because he's black.
    How about a knee for Ashli?

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  5. George Floyd had a knee placed on his neck.

    Ashli Babbitt had a bullet placed in her neck.

    By analogy, somevPatriots are ready to take a bullet, not a knee.

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