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Can I get some details? Who makes up the contingent? Are they protestors, counter protestors or what? What motivates them, and how do you know this information?
by landryraccoon 6y ago
Can I get some details? Who makes up the contingent? Are they protestors, counter protestors or what? What motivates them, and how do you know this information?
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y agoPresumably the same sort who says > If the state wants people to respect the laws and remain peaceful, it needs to clean its own house of violent criminals first. Or “peaceful protesting wasn’t working so what else are protestors supposed to do?” Which I see all over Reddit. Personally, I hear friends who dislike the violence but have an attitude of “well we’re so privileged, who are we to judge?” It’s not PC to disavow it because our voices aren’t the ones that need to be heard right now (unless we agree, in which case we’re being allies and have a moral duty to speak up and lend our privilege). This quote comes up a lot in that context (MLK, Letter from the Birmingham Jail): > First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action” That said, I don’t know anyone who supports violent protest, and my friends are as left as they come.