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Senator Marsha Blackburn Slams Cory Booker Over LA Riots Comments

Senator Marsha Blackburn unwittingly kicked off a passionate online discussion when she objected to Senator Cory Booker, who called the...

Blackburn’s post resonated deeply with the larger fed-up conservative contingent regarding how politicians, media, and commentariat concerned themselves with labeling such violence and protest. The senator had been outspoken about what she considered to be an unfair, double standard in the mainstream media concerning disturbances on the left side of the spectrum compared to those on the right. What came sharply into focus in the discussion were great extremes of American social fracture regarding perceptions of protests, which on one end spectrum is placed-so could it be?-thoroughly justified resistance, and on the other spectrum-goes down as thoroughly lawless anarchy.

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