05-17-2023, 08:40 AM
(05-16-2023, 09:01 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Hardly unique. I spent over a year being told about "peaceful protests" in which heavy objects were thrown, lasers shined in officer's eyes, fires set and people physically attacked. I won't even get into the racial slurs hurled at non-white officers by white protestors. I suppose excusing political violence when it's perceived to threaten your objectives has become the norm. You'll note I think what happened on 01/06 was terrible. But I saw far more violent protests first hand that didn't seem to bother many people, and in fact were excused at very high levels. Very interesting, from my perspective, were Democrat politicians who all of the sudden cared about the well being of law enforcement instead of demonizing them on a daily basis and calling for them to be defunded, lose their jobs, be disbanded, etc. I'd be much more comfortable if we could condemn all of it, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards.
The violence was condemned, in both circumstances. But I think most people understand there is a difference in the 2 situations. One started as a protest for racial justice after watching a cop murder a man over a $20 counterfeit bill. The other was a protest built on lies by the President of the United States whose goals were to overturn the Federal Government in favor of Trump by any means necessary.
Now you may claim this is being hypocritical others will say it is using critical thinking skills to understand that while there were similarities in the situations there are also vast differences.
One wouldn’t have happened if Minneapolis didn’t have an out of control cop. The other wouldn5 have happened if we didn’t have an out of control President.
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