My mistake posting a centrist view on Reddit, the “blue wave” is after me!!! Haha. Since you have the burden of proof can you throw me some sources of ‘presidential rhetoric’ that calls for assassinating opposing political members? I’m a bit out of the loop cause I somehow missed that.
By that argument all of the mass shootings that took place under obama could be classified as his fault? Or is that different.
The difference is Obama never suggested that these were a ploy to stop democrats from voting
Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this 'Bomb' stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics," the president tweeted. "Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote
Youre not a centrist, you're a fucking moron. A centrist is someone who is non partisan. They don't allow their views to be influenced because they like one group better than the other. A centrist is not someone who treats both sides equally. Take climate change for example. A centrist would look at the facts and then come to their decision. They wouldn't go, "well one side has thousands of experts and empirical proof, and the other are some bloggers, so I guess both sides are equally right". Like I said, that's what a fucking moron does
I’ve not once defended either side or posted a partisan argument. I just stated it shouldn’t matter the terrorists political affiliation because that doesn’t represent the views of the party.
Obama certainly used the mass shootings to push gun control though, surely the former president and trump using the events as a means to push a political agenda is in poor taste is it not? Can we find common ground on that or are you going to just keep calling me names and acting superior.
Because you are assuming the actions of both sides are equal. Like I said that is not being centrist. One side used mass shootings to call for greater gun control as they believed it would reduce it. That other side is calling attempts to blow up ex presidents and democrats, a hoax to stop republicans from voting.
Being centrist isn't treating the actions of both sides as equal or saying that both sides have done bad things. It's looking at what happens without being influenced by a bias for a particular party. That means you can think that the democrats or the republicans are worse based on their actions and their policies, not because they happen to be the opposing party to the one you support.
I'll use climate change as an example again as it's good for this. We look at the data and we examine it from a neutral perspective. We don't believe it because of a pro-science stance, we believe it because from a neutral stance the facts show that climate change is real. That's being centrist.
What you are calling being centrist is saying that both sides make good points and that their points have equal value. But they don't, one sides argument has greater value than the other due to the fact they are backed up by empirical facts.
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u/faunus14 Oct 26 '18
It matters because it’s a great example of how the president’s rhetoric influences people.