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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
so you're saying that unless someone is in the media spotlight, their speech cannot possibly rise to the same level of rhetoric as those who are simple civilians?
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I'm asking you to draw where the equivalence lies. You are asking if this is false equivalence. To what?
It's a a handful of people picked out of a crowd at a protest.
What are you trying to say here? There are angry things said at protests on either side of the spectrum. I get that.
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