According to conservatives on social media, “Republicans have jobs and responsibilities” and therefore couldn’t engage in civil disobedience to voice their discontent with the 2008 and 2012 elections. With this perception of the Obama elections and subsequent claims of “ Republican acceptance,” Trump supporters are now demanding the same “fairness” for Donald J. Trump’s presidency, “We sat through do nothing politics for 8 years, the least they can do is go shut up and sit in the corner for 8 themselves,” one Trump supporter explained.
However, these perceptions do not reflect what actually followed the election of our country’s first black president, much less the difference between why people are protesting Donald J. Trump’s presidency as compared to Barack Obama’s presidency.
Conservatives forget history in discrediting Trump protesters
Klamath Falls, OR—It seems those on the right seem to forget that they were just as violent as well.
"Obama’s election in 2008 was preceded and followed by violent attacks and property destruction targeted against minorities."
"Kaylon Johnson, an African American campaign worker for Obama, was physically assaulted for wearing an Obama T-shirt in Louisiana following the 2008 election. The three white male attackers shouted “Fuck Obama!” and “Nigger president!” as they broke Johnson’s nose and fractured his eye-socket, requiring surgery."
"More frequently, Obama’s presidency was marked by effigies of our first black president hanging from nooses across the country, for example in Kentucky, Washington State, and Maine, or being burned around the world. What Trump supporters fail to remember is that following Obama’s election, property was destroyed across the country, for example in Pennsylvania, Texas, and North Carolina, and a predominately black church was torched in Massachusetts."
It's time for those on the right to stop claiming, that only those on the left cause property damage, and that only those on the right have jobs and have responsibilities and therefore couldn’t engage in civil disobedience. Or that only those on the left collect welfare, food stamps and housing assistance. Enough of the deflection away from themselves for committing the very same things they claim only the left does.
The hypocrisy is getting old. The right claims that when they protest, they do not cause property damage, and that only those on the right have jobs and have responsibilities and therefore couldn’t engage in civil disobedience. Wrong, the right does it too.
The above cartoon can apply to the right's protests as well. And the left is showing YOU the door for your own hypocrisy.
By James Garland of Tulelake News
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