I read an interesting argument related to this recently, which is that people on the right are aggressively self-policing; if someone tries looting or setting things on fire or attacking people at a right-leaning demonstration in the US, they will probably be shot. On the other hand, the US left has no such self-policing culture, and therefore more readily admits the kind of violence (both against people and property) that we've seen repeated multiple times in multiple locations for these Milo events. And let's not pretend it's some fringe group of subversives who sneak into these events and act violent; the majority of the politically active left-leaning people in my Facebook network explicitly discussed why they thought it was acceptable to "punch a nazi", as people are referring to the attack on Spencer. At some point over the last couple decades, the American left, to a large degree, gave up on the notion of peaceful politics, and it's reflected in the sort of stuff mentioned in the OP.
Is there any basis to this? Any data about violence at protests to back it up? It reads like it's a creation of someone's imagination about what the 'other' side must be like (not the commenter's imagination, but whomever they read) - people so dehumanized to the person imagining it that they lose sight of the fact that they are people, human beings, not objects of political opposition in someone's drama.
In particular, this sounds very unlikely:
> if someone tries looting or setting things on fire or attacking people at a right-leaning demonstration in the US, they will probably be shot.
When has that happened?
I'm pretty doubtful of anything that paints the 'other' side as one big stereotype. Also, my personal experience and observations of such things don't match these claims.
It makes the exact same argument as Exofunctor about the right being self-policing and the left not, and I would guess this was where Exofunctor heard about it.
Im hopeful that is not really the case. Seems the general international experience is that shooting into riots is at least counter productive if not outright slaughter.
