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Um, not sure he was that

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 17:10:00 +0000

In reply to MLK chose to use non-violent

Um, not sure he was that cynical. He was pretty invested in Christianity, as it meant back then.

MLK chose to use non-violent

artappraiser — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:29:28 +0000

In reply to Breaking: MLk didn't cause

MLK chose to use non-violent theory for a very specific reason: not because he was an angel peacenik from heaven but because he realized violence was extremely counter-productive.

You got to have those Sister Souljah moments with any movement that hopes for eventual majority support. The radicals have to be purged. (They learned this in the French Revolution, I believe?)

Breaking: MLk didn't cause

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:22:16 +0000

In reply to When Martin Luther King Jr.

Breaking: MLk didn't cause BLM violence, damage...

When Martin Luther King Jr.

rmrd0000 — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 01:07:40 +0000

In reply to apples and oranges trick you

When Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to support the Sanitation Worker's Strike, violence broke out was that violence due to Martin Luther King Jr.?

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/memphis-sanitation-workers-strike

apples and oranges trick you

artappraiser — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:04:15 +0000

In reply to From the WaPo

apples and oranges trick you're doing there. Sure. But the majority of recent vandalism is also related to BLM protests. Downtown Minneapolis, Manhattan businesses and Chicago Magnificent mile businesses sat unprotected and unboarded up completely empty and no one bothered them during weeks and weeks of lockdown until BLM protests started. We didn't have problems with people burning down or trying to burn down police stations or federal buildings before BLM movement either. We didn't have a looting problem, even though people were hurting for money....

From the WaPo

rmrd0000 — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 23:50:37 +0000

In reply to There is a subset of society

From the WaPo

The majority of BLM protests were peaceful

Here is what we have found based on the 7,305 events we’ve collected. The overall levels of violence and property destruction were low, and most of the violence that did take place was, in fact, directed against the BLM protesters.

First, police made arrests in 5 percent of the protest events, with over 8,500 reported arrests (or possibly more). Police used tear gas or related chemical substances in 2.5 percent of these events.

Protesters or bystanders were reported injured in 1.6 percent of the protests. In total, at least three Black Lives Matter protesters and one other person were killed while protesting in Omaha, Austin and Kenosha, Wis. One anti-fascist protester killed a far-right group member during a confrontation in Portland, Ore.; law enforcement killed the alleged assailant several days later.

Police were reported injured in 1 percent of the protests. A law enforcement officer killed in California was allegedly shot by supporters of the far-right “boogaloo” movement, not anti-racism protesters. The killings in the line of duty of other law enforcement officers during this period were not related to the protests.

Only 3.7 percent of the protests involved property damage or vandalism. Some portion of these involved neither police nor protesters, but people engaging in vandalism or looting alongside the protests.

In short, our data suggest that 96.3 percent of events involved no property damage or police injuries, and in 97.7 percent of events, no injuries were reported among participants, bystanders or police.

These figures should correct the narrative that the protests were overtaken by rioting and vandalism or violence. Such claims are false. Incidents in which there was protester violence or property destruction should be regarded as exceptional — and not representative of the uprising as a whole.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/16/this-summers-black-lives-matter-protesters-were-overwhelming-peaceful-our-research-finds/

There is a subset of society

ocean-kat — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 23:38:00 +0000

In reply to Graffiti and property

There is a subset of society willing to destroy property.

And a large if not a majority of them are BLM protestors

Graffiti and property

rmrd0000 — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:04:46 +0000

In reply to WWI Memorial in Kansas City vandalized with anti-voting graffiti

Graffiti and property destruction is nothing new

A memorial to Emmett Till had to be replaced and made bulletproof because the previous sign was used for target practice

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/20/this-emmett-till-memorial-was-vandalized-again-again-again-now-its-bulletproof/

There is a subset of society willing to destroy property.

With current surveillance systems, there is a change that the criminals can be caught.

I couldn't stop laughing. I

ocean-kat — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:55:00 +0000

In reply to more voodoo zeigeist and what

I couldn't stop laughing. I want to see some of the BLM people pulling down statues explain how this is wrong. The best argument they have is Statues for me but not for thee. The X for me but not for thee is the argument for the times

Police would care if Trump is

NCD — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 19:46:00 +0000

In reply to Omen of the future? If Biden

Police would care if Trump is reelected? Trump would care?... about anything but Trump?