PA-SN 2022 megathread: Shrek vs. The Wizard of Oz

[Barack Oganja]

If y'all like Fetterman that's fine but you're trying wayyy to hard to make the jogger incident out to be nothing, when I know for a fact people wouldn't be if he was a republican. Private citizens shouldn't be acting like police, how many times have we seen that go wrong. You can argue that it's not disqualifying without defending the action.

[Barack Oganja]

This is being blown way out of proportion. His kid was outside and he thought he heard gunshots so he ran out with a shotgun. That seems pretty reasonable. Plus, the guy was wearing a mask. I'm not getting the whole "racial profiling" thing here.

Chasing someone down and detaining them when you're not a police officer is pretty reasonable lol y'all get blinded by these politicians personas so easily

[Barack Oganja]

If y'all like Fetterman that's fine but you're trying wayyy to hard to make the jogger incident out to be nothing, when I know for a fact people wouldn't be if he was a republican. Private citizens shouldn't be acting like police, how many times have we seen that go wrong. You can argue that it's not disqualifying without defending the action.

I haven't seen anyone say that it's nothing ITT, and I'd agree that people should not pursue justice like this on their own, but I have seen others make implicit comparisons to the murder of Ahmaud Arbery which misses the point both of why what Fetterman did was problematic and what the tragedy of Arbery's death was.

There's definitely a lot of rationalization in this thread "he heard gunshots", "he didn't point the gun at the guy" vs a simple "he was wrong but I think we can move on"