• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    4 months ago

    It’s mostly right wingers who murder for political reasons. When you know deep down your worldview is a snakepit, that’s when you decide to take the law into your own hands like that.

    • 8565@lemmy.techtriage.guru
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      10
      ·
      4 months ago

      OK so this was Interesting so I dug into it

      John Wilkes Booth was part of the Know Nothing Party a left leaning party

      Lee Harvey Oswald was a socialist which is left leaning

      Both women that shot at Gerald R Ford were part of different left leaning programs

      Actually looks like most of the assissinations are done from left leaning individuals. Not that I’m taking sides on that matter just a cursory Google search

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        4 months ago

        Even if thats the case, it implicitly suggests that leftists go after the powerful while rights go after the people. Their peers

        • intensely_human@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          4 months ago

          What situation are you thinking of when you think of the right killing their peers for political reasons?

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          4 months ago

          The left is educated enough to know specifically who they want to kill. The right just wants everyone that’s not them to die

              • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                4 months ago

                The point is in current America, Right Wing followers are much, much more likely to enact violence. And they do. With the Right Wing leadership continuously giving arms manufacturers a pass despite almost weekly mass shootings, via Russian bribes funneled through the NRA, it’s blatantly obvious they want their followers armed when they finally enact their Right Wing Theocratic Oligarchy. They’ll just demonize who they want dead via Right Wing Media (Fox, OAN, NewsMax, Shapiro, Walsh, etc.,) and their perpetually frightened followers will make it happen.

                Again, fuck Putin, and any of his Tankie fellators.

              • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                2
                ·
                4 months ago

                "Well, achly, I’m going to be obtuse and deflect from the actual issue by being pedantic. Checkmate, libcuck! "

                You’re not smart, or clever.

      • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        4 months ago

        [citation needed]

        Considering what these presidents were doing politically when they were assassinated for their politics, this sounds like a mighty convenient narrative for a dogmatically anti-communist state to feed to the populace after the fact.

      • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 months ago

        Interesting choices. I think the only valid one there would be the second attempt on Gerald Ford (Sara Jane Moore), who wanted to spark a revolution.

        The first attempt on him was by one of the Mason Family (Lynette Fromme), who were sometimes described as hippies, but were also keen on bringing about a race war.

        John Wilkes Booth seems surprising to call left leaning, as he was pro-confederacy and angry about the abolition of slavery.

        Lee Harvey Oswald was a Soviet defector, and did indeed call himself a socialist. However there’s the whole probable scenario that he wasn’t actually the shooter and never went on trial.

        To mention other presidential assassinations, there’s Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of President James A. Garfield, who was a loyal republican, but felt he was personally wronged by the President (as well as mental illness).

        Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President William McKinley would probably support your hypothesis more than the others, as an anarchist.

        All in all, not really overwhelmingly left leaning.

        • 8565@lemmy.techtriage.guru
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          4 months ago

          I think your confused. The abolition of slavery was a right wing thing.

          The want to have a slaves was left wing

          • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            4 months ago

            No. “Republican” does not equal “Right wing”. Maybe in the modern context, but political parties evolve and shift on the left right scale over time. The Republican party was originally established as a less Conservative opposition to the Democrats.

            Besides, the policial party pushing for the thing is surely much less important than the thing itself. The act of enslaving a portion of the population, based entirely on racial divisions, is an extremely right wing position.

              • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                4 months ago

                Racism isn’t inherently a political issue and isn’t the whole story of slavery, but is a major factor when talking about enslaving a race. However, its close relationship to other major factors like colonialism, nationalism, supremacism and xenophobia, as well as financial structures allowing such enslavement and ownership, are all found well to the right of the spectrum.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        4 months ago

        I’m not digging it back up but I’ve seen a lot of evidence that is exact opposite to what you’re concluding.

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            4 months ago

            I don’t have time. The problem is that academics do not want to be seen as making a political statement so you have to find a particular type of source.

            I’ve definitely seen and fact checked lists of terrorist acts aside their committers’ political leanings. Most of them are right wingers, in the US at least. That’s been true since at least the 80s