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Its so hard for these people to understand that when you spew hate at others, whether through your actions, your words, or through your ballot, that people have less empathy for your than other people that might experience similar hardships and haven't been spewing hate.
The whole comparison of "you laughed at Charlie thing, and now we're laughing at ice killing" is so hard for these people to understand why most sane people view these deaths differently.
Person C spent his entire life spewing hate and saying some crazy shit that puts other people down, or in danger with his gun laws thinking, etc.
Person R was just a normal person, not spewing hate as a career.
Cue the shocked Pikachu face when they realize I care more about person R, than person C.
Similarly, if this person voted for Trump and lost his farm, I'm gonna have a lot less sympathy for him, than someone who voted against Trump, and lost his farm.
The ridiculous thing is that they expect any empathy at all, when a key feature of their ideology is a complete lack of empathy.
The ridiculous thing is that centrists will give them the empathy they want, no matter what they do, and then spew all their hate at the left.
The primary difference here is that Charlie was murdered by a citizen who was arrested as soon as his identity was uncovered and is now in custody.
Renee Good was murdered by a federal agent that has the full support of the federal government and will likely never be arrested or face any accountability.
Honestly I feel that memes can somewhat help break it down to a format even these chuckle fucks could understand if they wanted to.
I don’t think the issue is lack of understanding, they’re operating on faith logic where theyre looking for validation not information.
We laughed cause he spent years calling for political violence and then got what he asked for.
Oh no it's not like that.
Person C was wearing my team's colours, and person R wasn't. Therefore person C's death is terrible and person R's joke is a funny joke.