Bad Boys II

[Dill]

(05-31-2020, 12:58 PM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah, pretty much. All those memes rubbed me the wrong way. I don't mean it as an attack on Dino and right now realize it's indeed all his memes. But yep, I find those messages misplaced and they are not on one person, but rather wide-spread.




2) Seems to justify violence as a very human and understandable response to an attack. 3) Compares the violent acts to the freedom fight of 17hundredsomething (which I think it is clearly not), . . .
I consider it somewhat (not fully) similar to those Trump defenses/non-defenses. Focusing on the motives of those that are opposed, that is.

YOW! now comparing these to Trump non-defenses.  We'll I just want to limit my response to 2 and 3 for the moment.

To follow up Bels point about the "language of the unheard"--violence is a "very human and understandable response" to perceived injustice, most especially when other avenues have been exhausted.  And the way to fix this problem, as in King's day, is to address the injustice first and foremost. 

A "Clearly not" dismissal of the Boston Tea Party analogy sends quite the wrong message to all civil rights activists, including the non-violent ones.  Colonists "looted and destroyed" the private property of people not themselves in government and responsible for the tea tax, and gained rather than lost "moral credibility" in the eyes of half their countrymen. And they did so because other "legal" forms of protest had failed. The Revolution which began two years later was also a violent response, and I've not met any right-wing American who doesn't "excuse" this violence as justified.

In your "clear" dismissal of the analogy, some would certainly hear that you don't think legal forms of protest have failed. Those who have not been following your posts and know that you are Trump's most devastating critic might think they hear the voice of MAGA America and Charlie Kirk in that dismissal.

Rather than viewing the memes in question as "excuses" for violence, imagine for a moment that millions of people are tremendously frustrated first by the police violence and second by the cavalier dismissal of their complaints and protests. Then try viewing the memes rather as attacking the tone-deafness of MAGA America regarding this police violence in black communities. Their focus is not on "motives" so much as blindness to the double standard flying under the banner of MAGA post-raciality. That is what the memes creators are trying to foreground with their references to tax looting and the tea party and Kaepernick.