re: #169 HappyWarrior

Gabby Giffords denounced it. Again I have no problem denouncing it, I will continue to have a problem with the reaction of a man who brought Nugent as a guest to the WH after he told Obama to suck his gun and unlike Griffin never apologized, I think she was wrong but I’m sorry DD, I think it’s fair to point out Donald’s double standards.

It’s also worth it to point out that almost no one has actually bothered to defend Griffin for her dumb stunt. People are trying to point out the double standard between reactions to GOP’s frequent, violent eliminationist rhetoric and the far rarer occasions of such coming from the left side of things. Dems have almost universally shunned Griffin for this, yet the echoing refrain is ‘Why won’t Dems condemn her?! Why is the left ALWAYS so violent and mean and exclusionary!” Nugent’s frequent threats against Hillary and Obama, though? Crickets. The fucking effigies of both at GOp rallies? Nothing, even when Dems try to point out just how horrific these are and how not rare they are.

Time and again, our willingness to be the ‘adult in the room’ is weaponized against us, while GOP malfeasance is treated with a shrug, “boys will be boys” and we’re to blame anyways for not cleaning up the shit on the floor they leave because “we know better”. I get being the better person, and I want that to be the norm, but it’s impossible to ignore that we’re almost always punished for it, no matter what we do. One incident from the left and “HOLY SHIT, DEMS ARE THE MOST EVIL BIGOTED MONSTERS EVER!” gets to be the refrain for months, and ruins everything because ‘collective blame for thee, “lone wolf” for me.’

I’m fucking exhausted of it. And yet there seems like nothing we can do, because fighting that double standard just seems to solidify it more out of sheer fucking spite.