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Topic	Right wing rioters storm Capitol in an attempt to stop Biden certification
adjl 01/06/21 8:12:31 PM #216:	PyroBlade1985 posted... So now that Duke gave me the OK, (serious post time) I just have to ask, Why was the unrest of last summer acceptable, but the unrest in DC isn't? Isn't that hypocritical? For starters, regardless of any questions about the morality of protesting violently, it's generally a lot more acceptable to protest police brutality, systemic racism, and a lack of accountability for law enforcement than it is to protest with the aim of undermining the entire democratic process by overturning election results that are - by every available measure - perfectly legitimate. Straight out of the gate, one protest is for a justifiable cause, the other is not (a subjective assessment, to be sure, but one which most reasonable people will agree with). More significantly, though, calling last summer's unrest "acceptable" is grossly oversimplifying the situation and misrepresenting people's positions on it. The vast majority of people in support of BLM do not condone the looting, rioting, and other violence that has been attached to the protests, as much as far-right pundits would like to suggest they do. For the most part, the only time you'll see people being sympathetic toward violent BLM protests is when that violence has been instigated by police (and there's no shortage of videos out there of police assaulting obviously peaceful protesters), but even then the general consensus is "looting and rioting is bad, but I agree with the cause." The vast majority of BLM protests were in fact peaceful, as much as the media liked to fixate on the exciting violent ones. Many have been very quick to latch onto the violence for the sake of discrediting the movement as a whole, but those perpetrating the violence represent a very small portion of those protesting, many of which were only there for the sake of causing trouble and not because they feel any sort of affiliation with the cause. Basically, BLM protests=good, BLM riots=bad, conflating riots with all of BLM=also bad. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:949195475] in Right wing... [t:79222252]...</cite> <quote>PyroBlade1985 posted... </cite> <quote>So now that Duke gave me the OK, (serious post time) I just have to ask, Why was the unrest of last summer acceptable, but the unrest in DC isn't? Isn't that hypocritical?</quote> For starters, regardless of any questions about the morality of protesting violently, it's generally a lot more acceptable to protest police brutality, systemic racism, and a lack of accountability for law enforcement than it is to protest with the aim of undermining the entire democratic process by overturning election results that are - by every available measure - perfectly legitimate. Straight out of the gate, one protest is for a justifiable cause, the other is not (a subjective assessment, to be sure, but one which most reasonable people will agree with). More significantly, though, calling last summer's unrest "acceptable" is grossly oversimplifying the situation and misrepresenting people's positions on it. The vast majority of people in support of BLM do not condone the looting, rioting, and other violence that has been attached to the protests, as much as far-right pundits would like to suggest they do. For the most part, the only time you'll see people being sympathetic toward violent BLM protests is when that violence has been instigated by police (and there's no shortage of videos out there of police assaulting obviously peaceful protesters), but even then the general consensus is "looting and rioting is bad, but I agree with the cause." The vast majority of BLM protests were in fact peaceful, as much as the media liked to fixate on the exciting violent ones. Many have been very quick to latch onto the violence for the sake of discrediting the movement as a whole, but those perpetrating the violence represent a very small portion of those protesting, many of which were only there for the sake of causing trouble and not because they feel any sort of affiliation with the cause. Basically, BLM protests=good, BLM riots=bad, conflating riots with all of BLM=also bad. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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