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When the protesters have darker skin.
by tstrimple 6y ago
When the protesters have darker skin.
- dunce2020 6y agoDisrupting a seat of power is a protest. Burning down some random gas station is not. EDIT: Attacking -> Disrupting
- FentanylFloyd 6y agoI think those were "mostly peaceful fires"
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- bananabiscuit 6y agoIf the media didn't have double standards, it wouldn't have any standards at all.
- Solvitieg 6y agoIn fairness, the 100 days of riots in Portland were also described as peaceful protets
- syshum 6y agoMost of the reporting by media around events around the nation in response to police violence were called protests even as they devolved into violence and clear rioting so I am not sure where you get this position from
- JxLS-cpgbe0 6y agoThat's not true
- syshum 6y agoSo your response hinges on a single news outlet calling it riots and that is to represent all of the media?
- djsumdog 6y agoI do not understand how people believe this. News clip after news clip shows a CNN or FOX or MSNBC anchor in front of buildings that are literally on fire and they're saying "This is a protest ... it's mostly peaceful." It's like we're watching the same exact movie and yet we're seeing two totally different films.
- detaro 6y agoPurely peaceful doesn't tend to make the news. There were many thousands of rallies overall, with millions of attendees. If a tiny part of those has even just a few dozen shitheads max, you both got truly "mostly peaceful" and enough unacceptably bad stuff to produce enough news reports to make people think the country is burning. Some media have attempted to quantify it later based on police reports, and from what I remember it mostly matches that model.
- syshum 6y agoThe "based on police reports" is also a false narrative They are using a % of attendee's to come up with that, so if a "protest" was attended by 1,000 and only 10 people were arrested it was billed as "mostly peaceful" even though looting, fires, etc occurred. It is a changing of the definition of what most reasonable people would consider a "peaceful protest"
- mynameishere 6y agoWhen they have darker skin the media will upgrade it to a "peaceful protest".
- djsumdog 6y agoand it will be okay because COVID doesn't matter if your protesting for equality and justice, by burning down a Wendy's or looting everything in a Target or destroying a clothing store. After the big riots in Chicago I drove out on Sunday to get some Taco Bell. There were bricks through it, everything was closed up, and a fat security guard sat on a chair doing nothing as people looted a clothing store. Next day on the news the owner, a Korean American, said he lost $300,000 on a news broadcast. Insurance would cover none of it (insurance rarely covers riots) and he said he was considering declaring it a loss and closing the store forever. During the 2nd riot they looted a 7/11 a man had restocked with his savings. He lost everything and it's closed now. People are now scared out of their minds because people walked around the Capitol Build and broke a few desks. Was it wrong? absolutely? But it's a message: The people peacefully strolled through your rich fucking establishment, sat in your chairs, found your candy drawer (that was funny) and then left ... oh and one unarmed woman got shot and died by a security officer, but she wasn't black, so we'll forget about her tomorrow.
- rubycon22 6y agoThat's the sad part of it all. People making a huge deal out of this, when it was a bunch of loud people who did nothing but accomplish a cool photo op at some government building and ending with only a single person dead. That's enough for people to completely forget, ignore, and deflect from the entire summer of businesses burned down, people hurt and killed, and total chaos. What a shitshow.