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A question regarding riots and protests
Topic Started: Feb 7 2017, 06:57 PM (657 Views)
lucash
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Feb 14 2017, 06:54 PM
lucash
Feb 14 2017, 06:43 PM
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Feb 14 2017, 06:35 PM
lucash
Feb 13 2017, 10:58 PM
12Plus1
Feb 13 2017, 08:34 PM
I don't remember any of the Boston Tea Party rioters running through town burning carriages and destroying people's businesses.

Of those who demonstrate a good percentage do so just to riot and cause destruction. Another percentage protest because they want to have their 1960's experience. That dilutes the message of those who want to protest to make a statement.

No - but they did destroy business property. The point I was trying for was not that the group necessarily went after other businesses, but that they went after a business, period. They destroyed property that wasn't theirs for whatever ideological cause they had. How is that different than those in modern times? Answer: History and mythology. By the standards of that time period, the British (status quo) considered them to be nothing more than terrorists, lawless rebels. We as a nation, however, have mythologized these people and these events to make them culturally 'okay', while chastising similar if not the very same actions by others. Frankly, there's zero difference.

As far as the reasoning why - I'm not denying there are some elements within some protests who do it just to cause mayhem - but to summarily dismiss the entire protest without giving consideration to those within the protest who are genuinely, simply, trying to exercise their right to free speech and protest something they believe is wrong, is downright narrow sighted. It's dangerous even. People need to try and step outside their boxes and consider things in a much more nuanced manner. Not every protest is necessarily "just" a group of hoodlums (as some argue). But, that is how they get mindlessly painted. It's sad.



If you re-read my post you will see that I don't dismiss the entire protest. I just state that those who use violence and those who just want to take selfies of themselves at the protest DILUTE the true message of what the protest is about.

News media will focus more on the smashed windows, the fires, etc. and hardly ever interview those who can intelligently state their concerns.

Fair enough, I apparently misunderstood your points. :cheers:
OK, just don't let it happen again. :biggrin:
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Liberals need to learn to pace themselves if they don't want to be totally exhausted and useless when the next election comes....It is not like they have limitless strength and stamina...Overall, most are weaklings in mind and body............ :oyvey
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