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by Geneviev » Sat May 30, 2020 8:49 pm
by Albrenia » Sat May 30, 2020 8:49 pm
Australian rePublic wrote:I don't get these people. They're protesting violence against black people, by setting black people's businesses on fire
by Liriena » Sat May 30, 2020 8:49 pm
Liriena wrote:I think your first mistake is using the same "they" to describe a very, very broad and unorganized mass of people dispersed across a vast geographical area who are engaging in a wide variety of actions and with unknown amounts of actual overlap. People setting black people's businesses on fire in the middle of protests are not necessarily active participants in them nor necessarily hold the same motivations.
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by Gig em Aggies » Sat May 30, 2020 8:49 pm
Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:Alabama joins the fight: https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020 ... abama.html
Protests in Hoover, Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, and upcoming in Mobile. All peaceful so far.
by Liriena » Sat May 30, 2020 8:51 pm
Gig em Aggies wrote:Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:Alabama joins the fight: https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020 ... abama.html
Protests in Hoover, Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, and upcoming in Mobile. All peaceful so far.
lets hope they stay that way I mean what would MLK think of all of the looting and beating the shit out of people for no reason.
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by Kargintina the Third » Sat May 30, 2020 8:52 pm
by Australian rePublic » Sat May 30, 2020 8:52 pm
by Novus America » Sat May 30, 2020 8:53 pm
Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:Alabama joins the fight: https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020 ... abama.html
Protests in Hoover, Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, and upcoming in Mobile. All peaceful so far.
by Australian rePublic » Sat May 30, 2020 8:53 pm
Liriena wrote:Gig em Aggies wrote:lets hope they stay that way I mean what would MLK think of all of the looting and beating the shit out of people for no reason.
If you actually gave a single fuck about MLK as anything other than a rhetorical prop, you'd know exactly what he thought about riots.
by Aureumterra » Sat May 30, 2020 8:53 pm
Diahon wrote:Kargintina the Third wrote:We’re gonna need some evidence on national guard shooting journalists
https://twitter.com/PLBarghouty/status/ ... 54690?s=20
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1266911 ... 94722?s=20
by Slavakino » Sat May 30, 2020 8:53 pm
Australian rePublic wrote:I don't get these people. They're protesting violence against black people, by setting black people's businesses on fire
by Brunswick-upon-Raritan » Sat May 30, 2020 8:54 pm
Novus America wrote:Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:Alabama joins the fight: https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020 ... abama.html
Protests in Hoover, Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, and upcoming in Mobile. All peaceful so far.
Hopefully they stay peaceful. Although still the issue of protesting in Alabama is not likely to change Minneapolis city politics but sure, I am all for peaceful protests.
by Liriena » Sat May 30, 2020 8:55 pm
…I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.
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by Rojava Free State » Sat May 30, 2020 8:55 pm
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Geneviev » Sat May 30, 2020 8:56 pm
by Gig em Aggies » Sat May 30, 2020 8:56 pm
Liriena wrote:Gig em Aggies wrote:lets hope they stay that way I mean what would MLK think of all of the looting and beating the shit out of people for no reason.
If you actually gave a single fuck about MLK as anything other than a rhetorical prop, you'd know exactly what he thought about riots.
by Novus America » Sat May 30, 2020 8:57 pm
Albrenia wrote:Australian rePublic wrote:I don't get these people. They're protesting violence against black people, by setting black people's businesses on fire
It's chaos. Once a riot happens rather than a peaceful protest, a lot of rationality goes out the window.
Although I strongly sympathise with the anger, I can't help but despair when I see things like the rioters beating some random poor bastard either half to death or to death.
by Brunswick-upon-Raritan » Sat May 30, 2020 8:57 pm
by Rojava Free State » Sat May 30, 2020 8:57 pm
Diahon wrote:Kargintina the Third wrote:We’re gonna need some evidence on national guard shooting journalists
https://twitter.com/PLBarghouty/status/ ... 54690?s=20
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1266911 ... 94722?s=20
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Aureumterra » Sat May 30, 2020 8:57 pm
Liriena wrote:Gig em Aggies wrote:lets hope they stay that way I mean what would MLK think of all of the looting and beating the shit out of people for no reason.
If you actually gave a single fuck about MLK as anything other than a rhetorical prop, you'd know exactly what he thought about riots.
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by Liriena » Sat May 30, 2020 8:59 pm
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by Novus America » Sat May 30, 2020 9:00 pm
by Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana » Sat May 30, 2020 9:00 pm
Rojava Free State wrote:Miami and Chicago just went up.
by Brunswick-upon-Raritan » Sat May 30, 2020 9:01 pm
Aureumterra wrote:
If you actually gave a single fuck, you would watch the video and listen to what he says instead of going off the title, because it’s not what you think he says.
As in, he never ever was explicitly pro-riot, that’s a myth people are spreading on twitter over the last couple days. I do hope no one uses twitter as a news source
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