They’re blinded to it the same way that strident pro-lifers are blinded to their flaws.
Then you haven’t looked very hard. Right-wing terrorists have killed as many, if not more, people as Islamist terrorists have in the US since 9/11. (they’re running neck and neck, so who’s ahead changes periodically)
Part IV. What is the Threat to the United States Today?
Armed right-wing protestors recently stormed the Michigan statehouse, demanding that the covid lockdown be lifted.
Oh, and Charlottesville.
If you back up a few years, what white right-wingers did to civil rights protesters was way worse than any of this.
Then, again, you aren’t looking very hard. Among ardent Trump supporters especially, there’s a very strong punitive, authoritarian attitude towards “pwning the libs.” I lost count a long time ago of how many times I’ve heard liberals, academics, Democrats, atheists, and people from cities described as not “real Americans.” The Birther movement as well as Trump’s later attack on “The Squad” and their homelands were attacks on the idea that a non-white liberal belongs in this country and has any place in participating in its government. That’s not just some random college kid; that’s the president that you voted for pushing the sort of exclusionary ideas that you can’t see.
The right aren't the side advocating for the suppression of free speech, however they may disagree with the other side, or even denounce or mock what leftists say. (I don't, for the record, approve of mocking people or misrepresenting what they say, which both sides are guilty of.) They're not the ones setting campuses on fire or sabotaging lectures by shouting down people to prevent people with views they disagree with from speaking; and there is no right-wing equivalent of BLM or Antifa.
Are Donald Trump or right wingers advocating for the restriction or taking away of anyone's constitutional rights? Not to my knowledge.
Don't unborn babies have a right to live?
They're not a part of the mother's body; they're separate human beings with separate souls and therefore equal under the law, and no person has the right to murder them.
Our law recognizes the personhood of wanted unborn babies that are murdered (and you would be appalled if someone kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach and caused her to miscarry), but not the personhood of
unwanted unborn children. A child's humanity and human rights aren't determined by whether the mother wants it or not.
Bad things happen to people and people make poor choices, but we don't have the right to murder innocent people just because we may have suffered a wrong or because we messed up. Abortion doesn't change anything about what may have happened to the mother and it kills another person on top of that.
Pro-life people aren't putting the life of the child before the life of the mother, but pro-choice people
are putting the life of one human being before the life of another. Thinking of categories of people as subhuman can only lead to atrocities. And millions of innocent and defenseless children are gruesomely murdered every year---their blood unseen and their pain unheard and therefore largely unacknowledged.
(If we saw as many ultrasounds of babies being aborted as we do images of the casualties of war on television, perhaps more people would be against it.)
As for Charlottesville, the media misrepresented the president's comments about the event, resulting in the outrage of people who have unwittingly been indoctrinated with a false narrative, much like the "Hands up, don't shoot" narrative of the Michael Brown case which, though long since proven false, remains engrained in the minds of millions forever as a slogan for racial justice.
(If you can harness people's emotions before they know the facts, you can override their reason so that they won't care about the facts even when they are later discovered. Shrewd people who know this about human nature exploit it.)
