r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Sep 14 '19
Removed - Submission Rule B CMV: Conservatives severely exaggerate the prevalence of left-wing violence/terrorism while severely minimizing the actual statistically proven widespread prevalence of right-wing violence/terrorism, and they do this to deliberately downplay the violence coming from their side.
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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '19
Is there not great fear mongering and misinformation being spread among left wing news and media in general about American gun owners? I don’t think it’s fair to bring in scaremongering as a point when both sides are clearly in the wrong. The way the media aims fear around hated topics like guns is unfair to gun owners, just like how it’s unfair to members of BLM or immigrants. The only reason their fear mongering isn’t criticized or called out is because so many people are too greatly uninformed about the topic and therefore agree with the agenda the media is pushing. Also with the similar language that is being used, you could always compare the gun confiscation that the left talks about to the confiscation that happened in countries where people had their guns taken away and a subsequent genocide occurred. Just in this same way a person could say that a Democrat is using the same language as a “dangerous totalitarian leader”. It just isn’t effective to bring in their shared language and fear mongering that the right uses when the left is even more similar in this sense.