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Updated list of politically motivated leftist violence this election year -- shatter the false narrative that we are the violent ones by sharing links to DOCUMENTED incidents (videos, police statements, etc)

"PEACEFUL LEFT"

We are seeking unity and peace through truth, not retaliatory violence.

This is by no means exhaustive, cataloging all of them would take many hours more. I am only including politically motivated leftist violence for which there is verifiable evidence (police statements, videos, or photos):

Unclear or late-breaking incidents that I won't yet include in the above list:

There are many more. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me round out the list (or fix inaccuracies.) Would also like to use each victim's name.

It really is worth providing a counter to the prevailing narrative that there has been a lopsided wave of right-wing, politically-motivated violence this year. It is also worth reflecting on the frequency of violent crimes perpetrated by groups of people, compared to crimes perpetrated by lone actors.

In reality, the vast majority of folks on both sides are peaceful, but if we were forced to decide, the violent left appears to be responsible for a greater number of vicious documented attacks than the right. From what little I've seen, the instances of politically motivated group violence against a single person are almost entirely the domain of the left.

Maybe seeing this list will encourage the average leftist to reconsider whether the (so far, mostly alleged, not documented) instances of post-election violence they are seeing really should be ascribed to the average Trump supporter or to the President-elect himself.

Would they appreciate it if we held them and their support for certain candidates and political policies individually responsible for all of this violence?

This post documents some of the hoaxed "hate crimes" that have been supposedly plaguing America this election cycle: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5km8pm/list_of_confirmed_hate_hoaxes_is_growing_big/

Leftists: Please stop inventing crimes and perpetrating hoaxes. Your propensity to cry wolf with regard to this and so many other subjects makes it almost impossible to know which claims to treat seriously and prevents us from more effectively policing our movement. Please, please stop.

18 days after posting this, Reddit Enhancement Suite estimates that 40,022 upvoted it, while 27,812 downvoted it. 27,812 people decided to try and bury this rather than taking the opportunity to denounce all violence or to share the list so that people on both sides can come together and unite against violence. I find that utterly depressing.

Edit: added a few examples, a word here or there for clarity.

Edit: if you want to copy/paste the list, here it is in raw markdown for reddit

Edit: if you want to remember this post without needing to use the save button, I set up a tiny url to get to it: tiny url .com / lovetrumpsviolence (no spaces, obviously. URL shorteners aren't allowed on our domreddit.)

We are seeking unity and peace through truth, not retaliatory violence.

Posted Nov 18, 2016, 12:21 AM UTC · edited

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