Why did I tell you that?

[edelsont]

 

Yesterday, I shared with you some reader comments that I found on Breitbart, on the subject of what would happen (according to the commenters) if President Trump is impeached.  What did they think would happen? In a word, violence.

I also said I "might" follow up with some comments and/or questions of my own, about those Breitbart comments.  And today, I shall, in a baby-step sort of way. All I have for you today is one question ... and I'm only going to ask it, not answer it.

The question is one which, I imagine, you might have voiced after reading yesterday's entry.  Namely: "Why is he telling us this?"

What I said was true: those comments were, in fact, posted on Breitbart.  But not everything that is true is worth saying. If I reported the comments to you, I must have had some point I wanted to make.  What was it?

But like I said, I'm not going to answer that -- not today.  Instead, I'm going to turn around and ask you the same question.  Well, not exactly the same question: I'm not asking you to try to guess what was in my mind.

What I want to ask you is this: do you think that there's any good reason to do what I did: to take selected violence-oriented comments that were posted on a right-wing site like Breitbart, and copy them here, for what will presumably be a different audience?

Or even more simply: rather than asking you whether you think there's a good reason to do it, let me just ask you whether you think it's a good idea to do it.  And why or why not?

I'd really like to hear from you on this.  Ideally, by posting a reply right here on Dreamwidth.  You don't have to be a Dreamwidth member in order to do that.  Just click on "Reply", below.