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> Yes. It's very tricky to react to because people get angry. If you just go in public and pick someone and start pushing them, if you keep pushing them, they'r
by rbecker 6y ago
> Yes. It's very tricky to react to because people get angry. If you just go in public and pick someone and start pushing them, if you keep pushing them, they're going to slug you; it's just how it's going to work, at the individual level but also at the group level too. I'm also speaking metaphorically, in a sense. Of course if you hit them, they're going to fall down and go, "Oh, God, you're violent. You're a Nazi!"
So this is where all those "car rams protesters" headlines come from. They surround a car, attack it, and when inevitably someone speeds off regardless, that's the headline.
A typical example, with some footage of cars being hit and even shot at, yet somehow the report places all the blame on the drivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYsGoUeVEYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYsGoUeVEYA
- uniqueid 6y agoI don't know if it's applicable to the spate of car attacks, but there have been a number of articles about leaked far-right group chat logs. The impression such articles leave me with is that the people involved care alot about PR, and try to make any attack look like self-defense. The most recent article I read on this subject is https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/09/23/patriot-coalition-far-right-chat-logs-violence/ https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/09/23/patriot-coalition...
- rbecker 6y agoSo the logic is, because some incidents were far-right PR moves, therefore all incidents are? This article says some incidents are antifa PR - shall we apply the same logic, and dismiss anything that makes the right look bad as antifa PR?