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Protests in Belarus are way more civilized than recent protests in both Portland and the rest of USA. The difference is stark, shocking, and puzzling.
by exo762 6y ago
Protests in Belarus are way more civilized than recent protests in both Portland and the rest of USA. The difference is stark, shocking, and puzzling.
- jdavis703 6y agoConsidering America is awash in guns, I don’t think it should be surprising. In the early days of the republic there were many armed uprisings... Not to mention the US Civil War.
- throwaway2048 6y agoThe violence around protests has had remarkably little to do with guns, except maybe for police shooting protestors. A tiny handful of events when huge protests are taking place in basically every city is itself pretty remarkable.
- hippich 6y agoBelarusians have a lot of hunting riffles on hands too. But these are tightly regulated. You can't wear it just because you want to. And people were jailed for possession a single WW2 era round found in the forest (Belarus had a lot going on on its territory during WW2 and as the result - a lot of stuff is still in the soil all across the country).
- pstuart 6y agoThe US protests are being sabotaged with violence from outsiders to delegitimize them.
- komali2 6y agoAgreed, this is why portland protesters are demanding these outsiders (the national guard) leave.
- pstuart 6y agoNot just those outsiders, but Proud Bois and other White Nationalists.
- pstuart 6y agoHmmmm. I just do nazi why this is getting downvoted.
- Mirioron 6y agoBecause the situation is (probably) a lot more nuanced than what you paint it as.
- komali2 6y agoWell, Proud Boys are outsiders specifically entering Portland to cause trouble, further nuance can I guess be found in other hate groups that are coming in from outside Portland to stir the pot even more. I just watched a video that included press, local cops, proud boys, KKK (labeled as such), and a single BLM protester (being beaten by the proud boy people).
- pstuart 6y agoMy points were nuance.
- content_sesh 6y agoThey're mostly concerned with Feds more than NG, but your point is spot on
- YarickR2 6y agoHow do you know Belarussian protests aren't ?
- pstuart 6y agoI assume they are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men_(Ukrainian_crisis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men_(Ukrainian_cr...
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI think we should be pretty skeptical of these kind of broad generalizations. How do you know you're seeing a representative sample of protests in either country?
- tehwebguy 6y agoDo you mean the police in Belarus are acting way more civilized? Aside from property damage I've seen over 1000:1 ratio of police brutality content to protestor violence content in the US over the last several months. Presumably the ratio is somewhat lower than that, but I imagine it still leans this direction. As a specific illustration, in just a month police shot like 7 protestors' eyeballs out. The cost of these alone is incalculable.
- romwell 6y ago>Do you mean the police in Belarus are acting way more civilized? No. The police in Belarus is just torturing people in cells where no evidence can be produced. Different style, you see.