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Then the 99% are doing an awfully bad job at telling their peers they are wrong.

by TheGRS 6y ago

koheripbal 6y ago
> Then the 99% are doing an awfully bad job at telling their peers they are wrong. That's actually very common these days. The mainstream has no control over the fringe. In a similar vein, when anarchists in Portland tried to burn down the Federal courthouse, there was silence from much of the Democrat political establishment.
- TheGRS 6y ago
  The context around a lot of riots from the summer sits in my head pretty heavily. I don't like seeing rioting and vandalism as much as the next person, but I also recognize where it came from. I'm having a tough time reconciling the capitol storming in the same manner. The only similar emotion I have is pity toward people who were clearly lied to and who have insulated themselves from rational thought. To be clear I don't ever want to see guns or explosives at a protest, nor do I want to see riots, but I also understood the anger last summer and found it difficult to condemn it when the people most affected were at their wit's end. I get the sense that last week's protestors were in a similar mindset, but their reasoning was highly flawed and easily debunked. I'm sure anyone coming at this from a different perspective would see my view as hypocritical and I recognize that, but there's a feeling in my heart I can't shake about what happened last summer when it came to police brutality, one that can't easily be broken by a whataboutism.
  - koheripbal 6y ago
    > I also understood the anger last summer and found it difficult to condemn it No degree of injustice gives people ethical license to destroy the livelihoods of people who had no role in said injustices. I found the media silence on the violence and destruction over the summer, as a means to further their political objectives, absolutely repugnant. I equally condemn the Capitol Hill rioters and hope they all face long prison sentences. Do not allow violence to be partisan. Whether it's attempting to burn down a courthouse in Portland, or trashing the capital building, laws and gov't are all that keep civilization together.
    - TheGRS 6y ago
      There was no silence around it. The images were shown very readily and commented on openly. "Silence" apparently is a very squishy term, the media showed images of violence and unrest during the summer just as much as they did with the capitol siege.

Then the 99% are doing an awfully bad job at telling their peers they are wrong.

by TheGRS 6y ago

Then the 99% are doing an awfully bad job at telling their peers they are wrong.

> Then the 99% are doing an awfully bad job at telling their peers they are wrong. That's actually very common these days. The mainstream has no control over the fringe. In a similar vein, when anarchists in Portland tried to burn down the Federal courthouse, there was silence from much of the Democrat political establishment.

TheGRS 6y ago
The context around a lot of riots from the summer sits in my head pretty heavily. I don't like seeing rioting and vandalism as much as the next person, but I also recognize where it came from. I'm having a tough time reconciling the capitol storming in the same manner. The only similar emotion I have is pity toward people who were clearly lied to and who have insulated themselves from rational thought. To be clear I don't ever want to see guns or explosives at a protest, nor do I want to see riots, but I also understood the anger last summer and found it difficult to condemn it when the people most affected were at their wit's end. I get the sense that last week's protestors were in a similar mindset, but their reasoning was highly flawed and easily debunked. I'm sure anyone coming at this from a different perspective would see my view as hypocritical and I recognize that, but there's a feeling in my heart I can't shake about what happened last summer when it came to police brutality, one that can't easily be broken by a whataboutism.
- koheripbal 6y ago
  > I also understood the anger last summer and found it difficult to condemn it No degree of injustice gives people ethical license to destroy the livelihoods of people who had no role in said injustices. I found the media silence on the violence and destruction over the summer, as a means to further their political objectives, absolutely repugnant. I equally condemn the Capitol Hill rioters and hope they all face long prison sentences. Do not allow violence to be partisan. Whether it's attempting to burn down a courthouse in Portland, or trashing the capital building, laws and gov't are all that keep civilization together.
  - TheGRS 6y ago
    There was no silence around it. The images were shown very readily and commented on openly. "Silence" apparently is a very squishy term, the media showed images of violence and unrest during the summer just as much as they did with the capitol siege.