Liberal Activist Attacked by Zealous Conservative

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by tater

"Teabaggers" and "stomp."

I try pretty hard in my posts not to hurl epithets. Generalization is also often not a good idea. There is exactly zero pattern of violence here. There are assaults in virtually every large gathering of people. Last time there was a concert someplace, do you think the police or security had any incidents? Sure, they probably had a bunch.

How many "incidents" per 1000 people is normal/typical in any gathering?

How many in political rallies?

Do Tea Party rallies have more than average, or fewer than the average number of incidents?

Basing a POV on anecdote is pretty normal in the US, I'll admit. It's not terribly rigorous, however.

Bad incident, press charges. When you can demonstrate a statistically significant increase in such incidents as a function of politics, by all means, post away.

When people defend this kind of behavior by saying she had it coming because she worked for moveon or that it's all a big dadgum librul conspiracy, that's what seals the deal on looking crazy.