LogFAQs > #944283983

The 93% is a stupid, misleading claim considering that it counts a protest involving 10 people with signs on the street corner the same as it a protest does thousands engaged in shoving matches, shouting threats, and burning things. And suggesting that the large-scale protests aren't an issue because there are small protests where nothing happens is about as deceptive as you can get, as is the media spin where they try to treat the "peaceful" part of the protest as somehow being separate from when it turns violent.

Of course, it gets even worse than that:

The vast majority of the thousands of Black Lives Matter protests this summer have been peaceful, with more than 93% involving no serious harm to people or damage to property, according to a new report tracking political violence in the United States

ie, a "peaceful protest" can involve small-scale damage and minor injuries, just not burning buildings and killing people.

GreenKnight127 posted...

To be fair, back then we didn't have HD cameras to capture the truth of these "peaceful protests" the way we do now.

This. Even the "peaceful protests" frequently involve low-level violence and vandalism. People may be kicked, punched, and spit at, but that's still "peaceful" because nobody wound up seriously injured.

adjl posted...

I mean, the US has seen more covid deaths than there are total protesters, so I think your scales might be off by a couple orders of magnitude there.

The first problem with that statement is that it's speculative bullshit. The second part is that a lot of the transmissions were very likely driven by those same protests.

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