Normalizing deviant behavior

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It began heating up during the summer of love 2020

Here’s the latest on this phenomenon:

Online fundraiser for Texas track meet stabbing suspect nears $150K

And I’ve yet to hear a liberal actually denounce the firebombings and assaults on Tesla owners without inserting the “but” that negates everything they’ve just said, as in “I deplore violence, and condemn it, but …”

David Strom has his own observations on all this:

55% of Leftists Say Assassinations At Least 'Somewhat' Justified

I've written a number of pieces about how the left has embraced violence, arguing that there is nothing fringe about the riots, assaults, vandalism, and even murder that has been sweeping our country. 

During the George Floyd riots, we saw every Democrat politician in the country literally kneeling in celebration of the riots, egging them on, musing about how the violence was justified, calling the takeover of our cities the "summer of love," and attacking Republicans for not embracing the "mostly peaceful" burning down of our cities. 

Biden supporters poured millions into the Lincoln Project even after Rick Wilson went on TV to call on people to "put a bullet" into Trump, and there were signs emblazoned with 86-47 (kill Trump) all over the protests this weekend. Luigi Mangione merchandise flew off the shelves after his murder of Thompson, and his legal team of the highest-powered lawyers in the country has raised almost a million dollars to fund his defense. 

The modern left began its current incarnation during the French Revolution, which spawned the Terror, and a popular leftist magazine often quoted is called Jacobin--referring to the French leftists who gave us the Terror. 

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, there was a mass movement among the leftists of Twitter to create their own social media company based on the claim that Twitter had become right-wing--despite actual surveys showing that Twitter was the most ideologically diverse and balanced social media platform, divided evenly between Democrats and Republicans. 

Bluesky, which claims to be filled with compassionate leftists, is chock full of calls to violence and assassination, which appears to be the comfortable spot for many "mainstream" journalists and commentators. 

Interestingly, the report finds liberal social media platform BlueSky “plays a significant and predictive role in amplifying radical ideation.” BlueSky has seen its new user numbers surge since November’s election, according to the leftist publication The Guardian. Curiously, the “great X-odus” has been driven by liberals “seeking to escape Elon Musk’s X amid warnings from anti-hate speech campaign groups and the EU about misinformation and extremism on the platform,” The Guardian asserts. 

NCRI also found that users are increasingly tying the “memification” of Mangione with calls for political violence against Trump, Musk and others, “reflecting the growing cyber-social presence of assassination culture.” Mangione supporters have been using a meme of the Luigi character from the Super Mario Brothers video game/movie franchise as a symbol of political violence. Some of the threats echo the “Deny, Defend, Depose” mantra inscribed by Mangione on the shell casing that killed Brian Thompson, according to the report.  

Have you once heard about an EU campaign to shut down BlueSky as happens regularly when talking about X? Talk of extradition of BlueSky liberals? 

No? Well, there is a reason: liberals live in a bubble where such language and emotional outbursts are seen as normal. When an ordinary person "misgenders" a trans person, we hear stark warnings about "genocide." When a liberal says that Luigi Mangione had a good point it is seen as normal discourse. 

And then, of course, we have our poor little rich girl from Greenwich chiming in:

TayTay’s parents, the ones who paid to send her off to Swiss finishing school, belong in the same economic strat that Brian Thompson did; would she also cheer their murders? The Lorenz holiday get-togethers must be cautious affairs.