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It is not just the COVID19 reaction that is driving people to consider leaving the cities but the willingness of public officials to let violent protesters run
by Shivetya 6y ago
It is not just the COVID19 reaction that is driving people to consider leaving the cities but the willingness of public officials to let violent protesters run wild. Those pictures in many big newspapers have lasting effect.
It is one thing to fear a virus you cannot see and another where you have pictures of destroyed businesses and cars.
- smolder 6y agoYeah, those anti-mask people can get pretty violent. They just lynched a doll of their governor in Kentucky and no one's doing anything about it.
- rpiguy 6y agoAnti-mask people are non-violent in comparison to BLM and Antifa. There were six murders inside of Seattle'a "autonomous zone" including two minors. Anti-maskers aren't burning city halls, throwing Molotov cocktails into police cars, destroying public and private property, etc. There is no equating the two.
- slumpt_ 6y agoViolence has been a vanishingly small part of what are largely peaceful protests that continue to this day across the country. Be careful of the media you consume. It can rot your brain.
- sershe 6y agoI just consume local Seattle media describing multiple murders in the CHOP, all of which were between protesters (or whatever you choose to call people hanging out there), nothing to do with police or right-wingers. If I was living anywhere near, I'd be moving ASAP. I am actually now glad we didn't buy a house closer to transit, like I wanted. We might still decide to move somewhere non-walkable if this continues.
- slumpt_ 6y agook
- smolder 6y agoYou have a very skewed view of things. Police and insane white supremacists trying to start a "boogaloo" were responsible for starting the violence in several of the protests. The anti-mask people also have a death count and economic damage on their hands. It's just by way of the pure stupidity of refusing to wear masks in a pandemic, based on stupid myths about how it's to mind-control or harm them, as opposed to being mad police are murdering them and then brutalizing them at protests. A number of anti-maskers have gotten violent about it, like the guy who rammed a woman with his shopping cart, or the one who stabbed a guy and then suicides by cop trying to stab them, or the other one up in Canada... There are several examples. I'm not excusing violence and lawlessness by people at protests, but you are clearly only seeing the part that supports your worldview, and nothing close to the reality.
- sershe 6y agoRead up on murders in the CHOP and nearby. Nothing to do with police or white supermacists. Everything to do with the people in the CHOP, eh, protesters I guess?
- stass 6y agoI'm surprised this is getting downvoted. A lot of my friends are leaving or considering leaving cities exactly for this reason. A lot of small businesses got destroyed in riots as well, and I imagine their owners would be leaving too.