>some super-extreme idiots met up with the opposite extreme idiots and it got out of control.
This sanctimonious false equivalence is extremely disrespectful to the murdered woman.
This sanctimonious false equivalence is extremely disrespectful to the murdered woman.
Look a bit further back and the equivalence is fair.
If anything, far left ideologies are responsible for more deaths than far right ones.
The correct distinction is bigotry vs inclusiveness, freedom vs slavery, rights vs oppression. The murdered woman was a civil rights activist, peacefully protesting white supremacists. To lump her in with her murderer as an "extreme idiot" is to do violence both to her memory and to the entire history of civil rights in America. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms, and I respectfully invite the downvoters of my previous remark to explain why they disagree.
And yes, the far left and far right are very similar, which is why I've previously argued that framing all this in terms of an authoritarian-libertarian spectrum is more useful than using a left-right one.