Steve Scalise: I may have attended white supremacists event

[Patooka]

I went to an event where Antifa and Alt-Right were both scheduled to have rally/counter-rally. I went there and sold baseball bats. I sold to both sides. Which side does that mean I support?

In this scenario, I don't care who you support. Call me crazy, but I hold elected officials to a higher standard than people who sell sporting goods. I also suspect if a left wing politician sold baseball bats at an antifa rally, you would be the first to condemn it from the rooftops.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

AH. I was only going by the thread title.

Even if you were just going from the thread title your argument was not reasonable

Why? Are you saying that attending an event makes you a supporter of the people who organized it? People could go for all sorts of reasons. They could go to protest it, to see how people who support it think, to report on it, or they may just wander in not knowing what it is about. I once walked into and watched an anti-Jordan Peterson feminist/trans protest event. at McMaster University near where I live, back when he was first gaining his fame/notoriety for opposing what he called "force speech". The protesters against him got quite ridiculous with their chants and blind hate. I was standing among them. Does that make me one of them? I've also spent a few hours in what turned out to be a gay bar. Does that make me gay? No.

I'm confused. You are making statements about context, but oddly enough, didn't care about context for the OP, just felt like posting.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

I went to an event where Antifa and Alt-Right were both scheduled to have rally/counter-rally. I went there and sold baseball bats. I sold to both sides. Which side does that mean I support?

In this scenario, I don't care who you support. Call me crazy, but I hold elected officials to a higher standard than people who sell sporting goods. I also suspect if a left wing politician sold baseball bats at an antifa rally, you would be the first to condemn it from the rooftops.

Only if they sold it only to one side.