You don’t know what the parent posted. I didn’t attack you.

You shared your own irrelevant experience which undermines the experience of being threatened. You then used that irrelevant experience to assume with no information that these threats were deserved.

You could have instead asked what was posted and then offered your advice if it was warranted. But what post or posts justify graphic death threats?

Of course we can be responsible for bad things that happen to us. We might also not be responsible. Without knowledge of what was posted we can’t determine what is true in this case. But making the assumption that it is deserved is unreasonable.

> But if you ride choose to ride the subway back and forth across the Bronx at 3 am every night with big gold chains visibly dangling around your neck, you absolutely deserve some of the blame for being the "victim" when you get mugged!

Actually no, wearing gold chains and riding the subway are not crimes. This is just more victim blaming.

A better example would be the mugger is responsible for their subsequent arrest and imprisonment after mugging someone.

> I am not familiar with the original OP, but anyone who goes around having interactions in a confrontational style should expect to be confronted, along with all of the other things that come along with confrontations.

Right, you don’t know, so you’re just assuming that’s relevant here. You have no reason to believe graphic death threats were warranted. Personally I can’t imagine a post that would justify such death threats.

> Pretending that none of us have any agency in any of the bad things that happen to us because we are "victims" is a silly trope that is far too common.

Who is pretending this? You have fabricated this position.

  Come on ya'll now, let's be real
  Some jokers got a rough time keepin' it concealed
  I wonder what it mean, it's probably self-esteem
  They fiendin to be seen, get hemmed like Gabardines
  Cats think it can't happen until the gats start clappin
  They comin' down the wire spittin fire like a dragon
  Cause while the goods glisten, certain eyes take position
  To observe your trickin', then catch that ass slippin'
  Like, come on now ock, what you expect?
  Got a month's paycheck danglin' off your neck
  And while you Cristal sippin', they rubbin' up they mittens
  With heat in mint condition to start the getti-gettin'

People defending themselves from bigotry, and bigots themselves, are not equivalent. Black people not wanting racists to exist, and racists not wanting black people to exist, do you see a distinction?

There has been such a consistent attempt at ramming square pegs into round holes online in trying to “both sides” a bunch of these issues.

One trait is immutable and the other is not.

One trait is entirely internally focused and is not defined by a rejection of anyone external to the subject, the other's trait is entirely defined by such an external focus on the rejection of another person's immutable identity.

Let’s not pretend the disagreement is about fiscal policy.

lol I don’t want the bigots and people sending death threats to exist, I’ll stand on a soapbox and say that