1. Privately, PMC-liberals are about 30% more sane than you'd think given The Discourse, but one exception is the belief that violence on behalf of left causes or against outgroup targets carries a steep moral discount and should *generally* carry a substantial penalty discount.
2. They sincerely believe that firebombing a building and roasting a man alive in the ensuing flames during a BLM riot is *less bad* than doing it out of pyromania. That's not a hypothetical. It was the actual position of the Biden Justice Department.
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3. That doesn't mean they want *no* punishment. Oh no, that would be crazy. But they do believe that leftwing political violence mitigates the underlying crime in the same way they believe is an aggravating factor.
4. Leftwing violence is the "voice of the unheard." Rightwing violence is a threat to Our Democracy. It all becomes obvious when you get your mind right.
5. Just as sincerely, PMC-liberals believe that open displays of political opposition constitute a kind of rolling provocation. Words they disagree with are fighting words. They don't quite justify violence against the target, but they (at minimum) mitigate the moral violation.
6. These attitudes probably aren't universal and are as much honored by a wink and a nudge and selective outrage rather than avowed (as by the Biden administration), but they are widespread and they are seldom-to-never openly criticized from within the liberal-PMC ingroup.
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