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More of the wisdom we need right now from the late great Martin Luther King Jr.
@freemo When he was protesting, everything he did was spun to look violent, too. And polling at the time showed that most white folks disapproved.
So everything happening today is following his example.
@smeg I agree with the first part, that everything he did was spun to look violent.
Not sure how today is a repeat of that. Unless you mean George Floyd was spun to look violent (in which case I would agree)..
But the fact is I'm in the middle of a riot zone, the riots are real, the protests have a huge violent element. On the first night the skys were black with fires. I saw with my own eyes protesters en mass decided to loot, and burn innocent peoples homes and businesses. My friend is sitting in a hospital nearly beaten to death by a random group of protestors who had turned violent.
The violence is very real.
@freemo I'm going only by what I see on news/online.
News networks have a helicopter circle a single shop being looted and zoom in and out for an hour, with only a few people mulling around. Streamers on the ground show large crowds marching and behaving peacefully (for the most part), while cops shoot tear gas and bash people.
There are 2 narratives, and both are true. But the first has the media's megaphone while the latter does not. And there are far more people in the latter.
@smeg We havent had anyone I personally saw with guns thankfully. I myself had my AR-15 near by bed the first night of the riots in case someone tried to break into my home, but thankfully I did not need it.
I wouldnt be that idiot that goes to a protest with a gun though thats for damn sure.
@freemo At the protest near me, Proud Boys and neo-Confederates showed up with guns. Things stayed civil during daylight, bit after sunset there may have been some damage/violence (from who, it's unclear), then police targeted everyone with tear gas and rubber bullets.