The issue, rather, is what picture of āpolitical violenceā this messaging serves: To say that āpolitical violenceā has āno placeā in a society organized by political violence at home and abroad is to acquiesce to the normalization of that violence, so long as it is state and capitalist monopolized.
As author Ben Ehrenreich noted on X, āThere is no place for political violence against rich, white men. It is antithetical to everything America stands for.ā
Palestinians should kill Khamaas!
Russians should assasinate Putin!
America shouldā¦ idly stand by because violence is never the answer guys.
Spot on.
I mean I donāt exactly expect democratic politicians to advocate for political assassinations as you know, they are politicians, so of course as soon as one of their own comes under attack even if theyāre on the other side of politics theyāre gonna denounce it cause they donāt want to be assassinated.
I read this article as asking politicians to go the other direction with this logic and extend this abhorrence of violence they have when it comes their fellow political leaders to homeless people, migrants, civilians in war zones, etc.
Yeah I definitely agree, I was more just replying to the quote from the article about them calling for civility. I donāt really imagine they would call for anything else after something like this as itās violence directed at people in similar positions of power to them.