Special Comment By Teh Keith

[filkertom]

On our toxic discourse, and the unacceptability of violence. And I invoke his last lines, and I will do my best to stand by them:

Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our Democracy, and I apologize for and repudiate any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence. Because for whatever else each of us may be, we all are Americans.

Comments

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think the fact that we are all Americans is kind of irrelevant to the violence thing - we are all people, and that gives us moral standing. And one of the things you aren't supposed to do to other people is assassinate them.

[batyatoon]

This.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. But part of the whole gestalt of this noisy mess is an Us vs. Them dynamic in which patriotism figures strongly, so I suspect that's the button Keith was trying to push.