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(2,955 posts)question.
As we've seen, the right and its domestic terrorists get lighter sentences or a free pass compared to liberals or POC. For instance, the latest criminal charged on 1/6 received 5 years for beating a cop. We all know that sentence is far less than you'd expect from a black man standing up to a cop, let alone beating him.
The right's leadership gets a free pass entirely.
Law enforcement routinely ignores threats from domestic terrorists and this further emboldens them. Additionally, social media platforms allow them a place to gather and discuss plans for violence and intimidation. No policing by the sites' moderators further emboldens them.
So we see these terrorists going after librarians (Columbus drag book reading), physicians/hospitals (hospitals in Boston and Pittsburgh receiving bomb threats tied to care of transgender children/teens), and the list of their "enemies" goes on and on.
At what point will law enforcement act on these threats? At what point will citizens push back on these threats (knowing the costs of escalation at the hands of both terrorists and law enforcement)?
It's sad, terrifying, and frustrating. It's not the country any of us ever expected to live in.