another successful peaceful protest (c)

(c) by the (d) party/“lincoln project”/kasich and romney/dnc/joe biden campaign

racists purge incoming, that's great, i means... as great as 7 bullets in the back.

This is all nice and well in a vacuum, but in practice, coming up with a truly objective assessment of the status quo of society is not easy, and coming to a common understanding about the problem which 80+ percent of society can sign off on is even harder. Just look at the endless debates we're having here on PaRD about policing and crime statistics.

The slogan "silence is violence" is a cheap attack trying to emontionally manipulate people into joining the protesters and their cause. This slogan seeks to delegitimize a nonviolent, cautious approach, and it seeks to legitimize hostility and potential violence against those who refuse to come on board. It serves to paint everyone who refuses to explicitly endorse the BLM movement and align himself with its goals as an enemy of racial justice in general - a stance which implicitly gives BLM an (unjustified) status as the official speaker and arbiter of the interests of PoC.

At the end of the day, it's just a variation of the old, tired "if you're not with us, you're against us"-trope that a lot of radical, totalitarian movements used throughout history.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 26 2020 01:02am

Andy Ngo's Twitter feed has video of rioters chasing down a rifle-armed man who defends himself. Not posting the link. Graphic AF. Someone dies.

/e frame by frame, the guy who died struck the rifleman with a skateboard like it was a spear, and the guy who was wounded had a pistol in his hand.

This post was edited by Santara on Aug 26 2020 03:18am

Jesus. Also that guys arm in that one photo. Holy crap.

We all knew this was going to happen. Everything is so unhinged.
These rioters are insane.

Poor localized government response in a lot of situations as well. The Governor's wordchoice here (and Joe Biden's) to the shooting was moronic.

But let's be real, this doesn't seem to be about racial injustice. People rioted after a man that shot at police was killed as well earlier this year.

We can thank the Democrats + big media for all this. BLM is their creation. They breathed life into it and gave it power.

This post was edited by GLYC123 on Aug 26 2020 03:56am

The Rwandan genocide was perpetrated by Hutus. The Holocaust by Fender's ancestors.

There is a moral distinction between those who commit moral crimes and those on the sideline. These protesters see the world as binary. Evil racists and just revolutionaries. I think that's ignorant, and it's a dangerous worldview to have.

no tear gas, no beatings, no calling them rioter despite the destruction of public property. i wonder why...

Sad that another one has to during a protest for an already unnecessary death.

Tbh these types of incidents definitely make me feel happy that we don't have gun culture here.

https://bluelivesmatter.blue/video-new-video-shows-jacob-blake-fighting-kenosha-police-before-he-was-shot/

At the bottom there is a video from the other side of the street that shows Blake on the ground and then fighting with police briefly before walking around the vehicle. The rest of the ‘article’ is a description of what the filmer of this video saw.

The man who shot this video said he saw the officers attempt to tase him first, and order him to ‘drop the knife. Drop the knife’

2 confirmed dead in kenosha + 1 injured, presumably in those 2 shootings that were recorded. Circumstances of what happened still not clear in either case but one was defensive gun use, not sure about other