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>>15040

>Does this match your experience?

nope.

>>15042
The right doesn't defend these types.
The left goes for the slaaneshi daemon cosplay kids story time.

This is the difference.

>>15043

>The right doesn't defend these types.

I think they do but in a different way. Consider and grant that the people in the second image derive their authority from the institution of religion. Clearly, however, they are not acting as Jesus taught if we take both their intent and what Jesus says at face-value. Although most other Christians may say they are wrong, such people (as in the image) are mostly disregarded because they (as in the image) also claim to be Christian. Thus, these types are defended by the wider Christian umbrella; they need no overt defenders because they already exist within a well-fortified castle.

On the other hand, consider from where people in the OP derive their authority. While they may or may not be a Christian (it shouldn't matter, anyway), it is surely not from the larger institution of religion - the institution created by the Christian fundamentalists and biblical literalists. Let us suppose, also, then, that the person in the OP is not acting as Jesus taught. Grant also that most Christians (and even other people) in this case would say, also, that they (the person in the OP) is wrong. But from whence do they (the person in the OP) make their attack? Is it not in the open field? How, then, is such a person who makes such a jaunt, to put up a defense? Or, does every semblance which appears a certain way always turn out to be thus?

>>15044
I don't buy it. The Westboro Baptists're hated by pretty much everyone, being that they've gone out their way to make everyone do so. Frankly, they seem rather insincere in their actual beliefs, operating more as a way to drum up controversy and therefor money in inevitable litigation. But even if we discard that, they are not a significant group, being pretty much just one family anyway, and certainly not one liked by the right, considering their penchant for showing up at the funerals of soldiers.
These people have no authority, nor do they garner any 'defense' from a wider one.

Moreover, if we apply your rhetoric anyways, while they lack an 'institution', these types certainly benefit from the umbrella defense of "LGBT", a defense I might add that is significantly more sturdy than the porous defense of "christian".
You critique someone who is LGBT and you're a 'bigot'. You do so for a Christian, and not even Christians will bat an eye.
And I would further posit that at least in the American context, "Christian" has about as much "structure" as "LGBT" besides; American baptists do not follow a Pope, they do not derive authority from Rome, they do not default to the judgement of any council, they each follow their own dogma and practices in their own communities entirely separate from such things. They are no more unified than the 'LGBT community'.

>>15040
Extremists advocating for an entire classification of people to be wiped off the face of the Earth or otherwise directly physically harmed is evil.

I primarily see this over the past several years being directed towards Jews, though this happens alongside some other groups facing physical attacks (like those who aren't themselves Jewish but are physically alongside Jews in public, for instance).

Unfortunately, this hatred comes from aggressors not easily put into the bullshit left-versus-center-versus-right political spectrum that's created by American brainrot. So, little effort is done such extremists in a way that's that effective in the long run. Which pisses me off a lot.

It would be nice if we could have a general moral standard in America of "If somebody roots for Palestinian Islamic Jihad among others to kill victims, this is horrible" without having to add "because PIJ is left-wing, and I'm right-wing" or "because PIJ is right-wing, and I'm left-wing". Evil things are evil. Understanding this fact is matter of not being an idiot, rather than rooting for a certain political party in the U.S.

Recommending: https://unwatch.org/unrwa-head-told-hamas-and-islamic-jihad-we-are-united-and-no-one-can-separate-us/

Of course, it would also be nice to have "neo-Nazis are terrible" and "Black militant revolutionary Marxists are terrible" be a part of this as well if we're talking other extremist loons who hate Jews as well as other innocents.

I can't put into words how badly I wish American Democrats and Republicans could stop being utter morons when it comes to insane hardliners who would happily kill off both of them by the tens of thousands if those insane hardliners could manage it. Trump voters literally worry more about drag queens then they do terrorists. Anti-Trump voters literally worry more about the technology of electric cars than they do terrorists. The fuck? God help us...

>>15040
>>15047
tl ; dr stop listening to partisan political skibidi toilet brainrot and care about the real enemies of love/community/civilization/etc

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-terrorist-opens-fire-on-civilian-bus-in-west-bank-8-wounded-3-seriously/