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Considering the sheer number of protests and protesters involved, BLM protests were mostly peaceful. https://today.uconn.edu/2020/10/study-2020-protests-shows-

Considering the sheer number of protests and protesters involved, BLM protests were mostly peaceful. https://today.uconn.edu/2020/10/study-2020-protests-shows-difference-reality-perception/ https://today.uconn.edu/2020/10/study-2020-protests-shows-di... "While the summer of 2020 experienced 100 days of violence and destruction in cities, according to the the U.S Department of Homeland Security, the most recent CCC study of 7,305 separate events in May and June suggests that 96.3% of events involved no property damage or police injuries and 97.7% of events had no injuries reported. Pressman spoke with UConn Today about the new report." In contrast, the attack on the capital building was a deliberately violent attack on the seat of our national government. Rioters brought zip ties to potentially hold lawmakers hostage, blunt force weapons, and firearms. It was inherently a violent undertaking with revolutionary aims.

A4ET8a8uTh0 6y ago
It usually only takes one to change public perception. And DC was a sample of one. OTOH, BLM has media covering for them(1) to make the group look peaceful. 1. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cnn+fiery+but+mostly+peaceful&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn1.img.sputniknews.com%2Fimg%2F07e4%2F08%2F1b%2F1080296460_0%3A0%3A1281%3A693_1000x541_80_0_0_8f59f14bf3b9b2fee2ed81b2c0cd2209.png https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cnn+fiery+but+mostly+peaceful&iax=...
AuryGlenz 6y ago
And that was a small fraction of the people who were there to protest, so they were mostly peaceful as well. Certainly most of the large BLM protests ended in destruction and violence, at least in my state of Minnesota. There’s a reason the national guard had to be deployed. People find strength in numbers.
- j2bax 6y ago
  I like how you respond to a thoughtful post with statistical data with your own conjecture.
  - AuryGlenz 6y ago
    That statistical data is pretty bunk. What constitutes an 'event?' It seems that they cast a pretty broad net if they came up with thousands of them. There was a protest in my town with all of 30 people in attendance - does that count? For several nights in a row I tuned in to the news in my state to watch straight up riots in Minneapolis. It's clear from the pictures of what happened in the capitol that it was done by a tiny fraction of people from the protests, so you don't need any statistical analysis for that.
alsetmusic 6y ago
People brought firearms to BLM events, too. Whether they brought them before or after riots broke out is unknowable. I support BLM and not rioters, fwiw. What makes this unique is that there are records online of people planning violence in advance.
jdminhbg 6y ago
> Considering the sheer number of protests and protesters involved, BLM protests were mostly peaceful. This is a pretty terrible standard, since MAGA rallies are mostly peaceful as well. The issue is what do we do with the ones that aren't, not how many of them are.
- j2bax 6y ago
  I think the comparison was BLM protests to this “protest”, not all MAGA rally’s.
  - leetcrew 6y ago
    which is sort of silly. the source cited higher up is counting how many separate BLM events involved police injuries and/or property damage. how does it make sense to compare that figure to a single event? with a sample of one, it can only be 100% or 0% by that methodology.
- southeastern 6y ago
  But this wasn't a rally. This was literally them storming the halls of Congress to take back their country from what they believe are corrupt communist deep state agents. Why do they believe that? Because their leader Trump has been amplifying this type of conspiratorial misinformation on Twitter for the past 4 years
  - notSupplied 6y ago
    The “the percent of protests that are peaceful” largely depends on what you decide to include in that category. Suppose the peaceful portion of BLM protests didn’t happen, would the violent riots go from being justified to unjust? Why would the presence of the peaceful protests change our moral assessment of the violent ones? Same with the MAGA demonstrations. It should not matter that there were numerous other peaceful MAGA rallies when assessing the storming on the capital.
ARandomerDude 6y ago
If you murder every 100th day, are you 99% peaceful?
- kenjackson 6y ago
  99% of days you are.

A4ET8a8uTh0 6y ago

It usually only takes one to change public perception. And DC was a sample of one. OTOH, BLM has media covering for them(1) to make the group look peaceful. 1. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cnn+fiery+but+mostly+peaceful&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn1.img.sputniknews.com%2Fimg%2F07e4%2F08%2F1b%2F1080296460_0%3A0%3A1281%3A693_1000x541_80_0_0_8f59f14bf3b9b2fee2ed81b2c0cd2209.png https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cnn+fiery+but+mostly+peaceful&iax=...

AuryGlenz 6y ago

And that was a small fraction of the people who were there to protest, so they were mostly peaceful as well. Certainly most of the large BLM protests ended in destruction and violence, at least in my state of Minnesota. There’s a reason the national guard had to be deployed. People find strength in numbers.

j2bax 6y ago
I like how you respond to a thoughtful post with statistical data with your own conjecture.
- AuryGlenz 6y ago
  That statistical data is pretty bunk. What constitutes an 'event?' It seems that they cast a pretty broad net if they came up with thousands of them. There was a protest in my town with all of 30 people in attendance - does that count? For several nights in a row I tuned in to the news in my state to watch straight up riots in Minneapolis. It's clear from the pictures of what happened in the capitol that it was done by a tiny fraction of people from the protests, so you don't need any statistical analysis for that.

alsetmusic 6y ago

People brought firearms to BLM events, too. Whether they brought them before or after riots broke out is unknowable. I support BLM and not rioters, fwiw. What makes this unique is that there are records online of people planning violence in advance.

jdminhbg 6y ago

> Considering the sheer number of protests and protesters involved, BLM protests were mostly peaceful. This is a pretty terrible standard, since MAGA rallies are mostly peaceful as well. The issue is what do we do with the ones that aren't, not how many of them are.

j2bax 6y ago
I think the comparison was BLM protests to this “protest”, not all MAGA rally’s.
- leetcrew 6y ago
  which is sort of silly. the source cited higher up is counting how many separate BLM events involved police injuries and/or property damage. how does it make sense to compare that figure to a single event? with a sample of one, it can only be 100% or 0% by that methodology.
southeastern 6y ago
But this wasn't a rally. This was literally them storming the halls of Congress to take back their country from what they believe are corrupt communist deep state agents. Why do they believe that? Because their leader Trump has been amplifying this type of conspiratorial misinformation on Twitter for the past 4 years
- notSupplied 6y ago
  The “the percent of protests that are peaceful” largely depends on what you decide to include in that category. Suppose the peaceful portion of BLM protests didn’t happen, would the violent riots go from being justified to unjust? Why would the presence of the peaceful protests change our moral assessment of the violent ones? Same with the MAGA demonstrations. It should not matter that there were numerous other peaceful MAGA rallies when assessing the storming on the capital.

ARandomerDude 6y ago

If you murder every 100th day, are you 99% peaceful?

kenjackson 6y ago
99% of days you are.