4: Some grievances are more legitimate than others.
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When 9/11 happened, you could say, "with America's global imperialist actions, this was bound to happen!" Many leftists did.
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When Micah Xavier Johnson killed 5 cops in Dallas last year, you could say, "with ongoing racist police abuse, this was bound to happen!"
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Now, in these latter cases there is a legitimate grievance. But the violent response is not directed or justifiable.
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The "SJWs calling us Nazis made us become Nazis" excuse is even worse than these. Because:
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1 "people called us names" is not on its own a real grievance. Have PoC ever significantly oppressed whites in America? No.
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2a people who don't have Nazi sympathies to begin with don't become Nazis at the slightest provocation.
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2b Hence, calling them Nazis was clearly justified to begin with
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3 the people eager to "understand" why Nazis did this never seem to apply the same logic to peaceful BLM activism, much less Micah X Johnson
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But BLM has REAL grievances, not "SJWs called us names!"
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The outbreak of white supremacist violence should be understood as the latest appearance of the same problem as the historical KKK
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White supremacist violence always justifying itself with phony claims of white victimhood. Always.
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So you saying, "Well, it's no wonder, how much longer could white men stand the terrible names SJWs called them!" is apologetics.
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