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Protesting is very democratic. South Korea showed that to the world. Sure, South Koreans could wait one more year and solve the problem at the election booth,
by sanxiyn 8y ago
Protesting is very democratic. South Korea showed that to the world.
Sure, South Koreans could wait one more year and solve the problem at the election booth, but protesting solved the problem faster.
- Veen 8y agoProtesting is one thing. Vandalism, looting, and firebombing are not legal protests.
- sanxiyn 8y agoThat whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.
- Veen 8y agoMacron isn't Hitler or Pol Pot or George III. He wants to put the price of diesel up to reduce environmental damage. He wants to reduce taxes on the rich to spur the economy. You can disagree with those aims, but he's not destroying the French system of government. For that, look to Venezuela.
- janzij 8y agoHe's a neoliberal who's screwing the working people, and now the working people are protesting. While I agree with the premise that they should've chosen someone else who cared about them like Le Pen, I don't see how this protest is illegitimate. (Not that I'm defending the property damage, of course.)
- close04 8y agoProtesting yes. Breaking the law... maybe also democratic. This doesn't change the fact that there is no comparing this to Arab spring. The same act can have very different meaning in different contexts. In this case it doesn't feel like those protesters have exhausted their options before jumping to violence. As such this is a condemnable act.