It’s a challenge because there’s one tolerated opinion and it’s not what any sensible person thinks.
The supermajority of Americans saw this guy get shot in the back on a public street, and said: yeah. Fuck 'im.
Now: our national character is demonstrably not in the best place these days. But the right-wing assholes who are about to ruin everything for everyone have no trouble promoting the most vile bullshit targeting all women, all immigrants, or all minorities. That cannot possibly be worse than saying ‘fuck this one particular guy for the acts he was headed off to celebrate.’ Especially when that guy is already dead. Nothing we say now can be an actionable threat against him.
We can fret about how such thoughts impact the living, including the peers he was headed off to celebrate with… but I will remind everyone that this impact is telling them to give people money when their doctors say they need medicine. Y’know. The insurance they pay for? If your actions vis-a-vis that money have you scared of the general public, while you’re thrilled about how much money you kept for yourself, maybe what you’re experiencing are the consequences of your own actions. You’ve somehow pissed off enough people that two-thirds of the country shrugged at an assassination. What else would it look like if it looked like you should do something differently?
It’s a challenge because there’s one tolerated opinion and it’s not what any sensible person thinks.
The supermajority of Americans saw this guy get shot in the back on a public street, and said: yeah. Fuck 'im.
Now: our national character is demonstrably not in the best place these days. But the right-wing assholes who are about to ruin everything for everyone have no trouble promoting the most vile bullshit targeting all women, all immigrants, or all minorities. That cannot possibly be worse than saying ‘fuck this one particular guy for the acts he was headed off to celebrate.’ Especially when that guy is already dead. Nothing we say now can be an actionable threat against him.
We can fret about how such thoughts impact the living, including the peers he was headed off to celebrate with… but I will remind everyone that this impact is telling them to give people money when their doctors say they need medicine. Y’know. The insurance they pay for? If your actions vis-a-vis that money have you scared of the general public, while you’re thrilled about how much money you kept for yourself, maybe what you’re experiencing are the consequences of your own actions. You’ve somehow pissed off enough people that two-thirds of the country shrugged at an assassination. What else would it look like if it looked like you should do something differently?