• helenslunch
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    7 months ago

    The only way to be heard is to burn down your neighbor’s businesses and rob Target! And if you do anything to protect your livelihood you’re just a right wing nut job!

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      7 months ago

      There are genuinely people who think like that. To be fair, the George Floyd protests/riots changed things in a way that peaceful protest had so far failed to do.

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        7 months ago

        Some minor progress was made because of the millions of people who turned out to peacefully protest. Those who rioted and destroyed shit only contributed ammunition to the opposition.

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          7 months ago

          I disagree, I think having an entire block burnt down made a lot of people decide they don’t want to see this happen again, in a way a regular protest wouldn’t have.

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            7 months ago

            Really? You think people had their businesses burned down and their town destroyed and thought to themselves “boy I hope these people get what they wanted!” or do you think they thought “These people are human garbage and I hope they rot in prison”? Which one of these thought processes makes more sense to you?

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              7 months ago

              Correct. English sufferage was only gained after a group of women took on learning jujitsu, wearing badass capes and paper body armor and went out burning government buildings and breaking all the windows in anti sufferagette buildings/homes and when police showed up they’d kick the shit out of them with jujitsu and then they’d make a speech the police couldn’t break up because their faces were meeting their asses for the first time and in a most uncomfortable way.

              Ed: because it’s interesting and I’m sure people won’t take my word.

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrajitsu

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              7 months ago

              The protests started because the police murdered a man in full view of a group of witnesses, a lot of people had a vested interest in making sure that didn’t happen again, in a way that non violent protest would not have achieved.

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                7 months ago

                Quite the opposite. A non-violent protest would have achieved much more. The rioters and looters only obstructed the cause.