Bad Boys II

[Belsnickel]

(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.

Just so one can see what I mean, it's like all these...




so 1) compares it to tax legislation, which I find misplaced. 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), and 4) Takes an imho perfectly fine Pence response and shames him for something quite unrelated (for though I think it's dumb, Pence has as much right to protest Kaep as anyone, he did not call for his arrest). Finally, 5) implies America finds the murder of Floyd "ok", which literally no one does.

I consider it somewhat (not fully) similar to those Trump defenses/non-defenses. Focusing on the motives of those that are opposed, that is.

I just want to comment on number 4, in bold. The important thing to keep in mind about this one is that Kaepernick was protesting this. He was protesting police brutality in a peaceful manner, yet those in power decided to ignore that and change the narrative. There is a MLK quote floating around about rioting being the language of the unheard. This isn't intended to justify rioting, but to point out why it is happening. Peaceful protests, like what Kaepernick engaged in, have been ignored, mocked, derided, etc. Pence's actions were an example of that. This is why rioting happens from these protests (not counting the agitators that make it worse). They tell the black community to peacefully protest, and then mock them or, at the very least, blatantly disregard their concerns when they do.