If you’re genuinely opposed to political violence, the correct response to ppl on *your* side threatening violence if they don’t get their way isn’t to tell the *other* side to give in. It’s to tell the thugs: “No: threatening violence is never OK, even if you feel frustrated.”
Here’s a more detailed thread I did a while back in response to a Sun article shamefully invoking the death of Jo Cox to support their argument that we should all just get behind Brexit
This was over two years ago. Don’t let anybody tell you that these threats and warnings of rioting, if Brexit is stopped or delayed, are a recent development
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