It'd be even better if they did whatever they were doing peacefully, without guns. That armed refuge occupation here in Oregon is costing a ton of money.
What's odd is that you immediately try to insinuate some kind of nefarious bias because s/he didn't cite an incident that lines up with your political leanings.
The parent is clearly in Oregon, so it's not exactly super duper weird that they mentioned a recent, relevant action in their own back yard.
It's odd that you went straight for "nefarious". I didn't actually think that at all. I assumed cognitive dissonance, actually. Mostly because everyone experiences it, myself included.
I think I was mostly vindicated. We tend to assign more importance to events that are both recent and geographically close to ourselves. The events in Ferguson or the shooting at the clinic in Colorado probably had more of an affect on the collective American psyche.
I didn't mention Oregon. Some GP comment mentioned eruptions and demonstrations. You picked out the Oregon one especially as being especially problematic in your mind.
I was trying to point out that we are the problem because we have our usual stalking horses and have no real way to track what the biggest problems actually are.
The Oregon thing is certainly newsworthy. I'm not sure it frames America's thoughts as much as the shooting in San Bernadino, say.
If you feel unfairly singled out, I apologize. That's wasn't my intent.
People rioting are not good. People demonstrating peacefully have a right to, even groups like the KKK, much as I despise them. Sometimes bad stuff happens on the fringes of mostly peaceful demonstrations when there are a lot of people involved, and emotions run high. I didn't follow the events in Ferguson as much, as I was still living in Italy. The refuge takeover is 2 hours east of me, so I've followed it more closely, and there was never anything peaceful about how those guys showed up armed to the teeth. It's a threat, no matter how much you say that it's not. Especially in light of some of the stuff they did: see the FBI complaint about how they threatened a woman wearing a BLM shirt, saying they knew where she lived.
