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The vast majority of BLM protests were peaceful. > ...93 percent of the protests associated with BLM were entirely peaceful... Yet our government treats left-
by JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
The vast majority of BLM protests were peaceful.
> ...93 percent of the protests associated with BLM were entirely peaceful...
Yet our government treats left-wing protests and right-wing protests quite differently.
> Between May 1 and November 28, 2020, authorities were more than twice as likely to attempt to break up and disperse a left-wing protest than a right-wing one. And in those situations when law enforcement chose to intervene, they were more likely to use force — 34 percent of the time with right-wing protests compared with 51 percent of the time for the left.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-response-to-the-capitol-breach-wasnt-an-aberration/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-respo...
- rrose 6y agothis comment being downvoted really reveals the character of the discussion here.
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoI think some of the questions posed in this thread are quite difficult and strike to the core of human psychology. This is a difficult moment for everybody. If we observe a somewhat tribal response, we should not be surprised. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206533
- dang 6y agoPlease don't break the site guidelines like this. A corrective upvote would have sufficed. Notice that the comment you're talking about is no longer in a downvoted state. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html