cerebus
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And yet, you cannot defend your own reasoning. You are literally the embodiment of the double standards of the media on MyBB.
When Obama cited those statistics he was trying to do something to prevent situations like Alton Martins from happening. The only relationship he had with the cop killer was a shared nexus of concern, but you can't blame him for stoking violence because there is no trace of that in his speech.
When Trump speaks about a Mexican invasion and creates videos of Mexicans swarming the border, it has one purpose - to fearmomger and stoke the racial sentiments of his base; in a way that I don't believe we've seen in any President in my lifetime at least. Maybe ever.
It has always been inevitable that some sick and evil people would latch onto his words and take them as literally as they appear to be. Cesar Sayoc and Crusius and the guy who body slammed a kid for not taking off his cap and James Fields and the Quebec City shooter and Scott and Steve Leader and Curtis Allen and Alex Bissonnette and plenty more have taken direct inspiration and fandom of Trump to the point of awful violence.