If someone set a basket of kittens on fire...

[Milton Platt]

But would you be more forgiving and lenient if you and they shared the same political views?

I don't see how political views enter into the question you posed.

 

[Revoltingest]

I don't see how political views enter into the question you posed.

If evil is being done, some group must be assigned blame.
I'm just now coming on board with this idea.

 

[Milton Platt]

If evil is being done, some group must be assigned blame.
I'm just now coming on board with this idea.

I think you are a little late to the party with that one.

We have a President who thinks everything is somebody else's fault....even if they have not held office for four years.

 

[Revoltingest]

I think you are a little late to the party with that one.

We have a President who thinks everything is somebody else's fault....even if they have not held office for four years.

Better late than never.
And I just started a new thread celebrating this perspective.

 

[gnomon]

Is this about Alyssa Milano or every instance in which someone declares a political opponent evil while ignoring their own?

Allegedly?

 

[Tambourine]

If evil is being done, some group must be assigned blame.
I'm just now coming on board with this idea.

It's just the logical extension of people subsuming their individual identities under their political affiliation as if they were clans and tribes of old, so that calling people out on execrable political views can be framed as akin to racial discrimination, religious persecution, or the harassment of sexual minorities. Since this protects people with execrable views especially, it has naturally become the cornerstone of modern mainstream politics, and brought us to the point where people fighting against fascism are seen as "the real fascists".