Just Stop with the False Equivalencies

Angry cartoon of me surrounded by flames

 Not that any of you* will listen, of course, but I have to get it down, get it out, let it out of my head.

1. No, breaking into the Capitol guns-a-blazing while congress is in session is not the same thing as property damage during actual protests or even riots. 
• No, not even if some sympathizer who a) should know better, and b) promised to protect people and property lets you in.
2. No, you are not being targeted by the press because you're straight, white, conservative, or male. You're being described by the press because of your violent actions. 
• Unlike, for instance, the folks actually being targeted by you for having the temerity to be not straight, white, conservative, and male.
• On that note, conservative is no longer the correct term. Reactionary or bigoted or even ridiculously immature might be more accurate. Actually conservative people try to - you know - conserve things (other than their own privileged status).
3. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's wrong. Change is not bad in and of itself (and there we go, back to reactionary).
• Good examples of this are gender expression, sexuality, and pronoun use.
4. Science and Religion both have good qualities, but they are not equivalent.
• Perhaps God is protecting you from Covid-19... by giving us the science and technology and tools to protect ourselves. 
• Or maybe you should use religion's most positive quality - a sense of community - to help others instead of judging them.
• The "masks don't work" and anti-vax arguments are specious. They do work - if everyone who is able to follow the guidelines follows them.
5. Your business is not more important than me breathing in and out.
• And if you had followed the guidelines immediately when they were given, there wouldn't be a question. But you're too 'rugged individualist' for that.
• There are no goddamn bootstraps. If there were, you still couldn't pull yourself up by them.
6. That sneering, sarcastic "So much for liberal tolerance" is bullshit. We are tolerant of things people are, but not tolerant of bad things people do. 
• Is your color, sexuality, gender, neurotype different from the most common ones? Cool, you get tolerance and acceptance and maybe even celebration!
• Are your behavior and attitude violent or unkind? Intolerance. 
• See how that works?

*Where "you" refers to people who don't even try to understand. I'm not talking about Actually Conservative and Decent™ people here.