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All of these protests, the BLM ones over the summer and the one on January 6th in DC were "mostly peaceful" by any definition of mostly and peaceful. Only the
by gotoeleven 6y ago
All of these protests, the BLM ones over the summer and the one on January 6th in DC were "mostly peaceful" by any definition of mostly and peaceful. Only the BLM protests got the "mostly peaceful" treatment from the media.
- knowaveragejoe 6y agoThe protests in 2020 were the largest protest movements in US history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_in_the_United_States_by_size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_in_the_United... From a purely statistical standpoint, they were overwhelmingly peaceful.
- thrwaway2day 6y ago> From a purely statistical standpoint, they were overwhelmingly peaceful. From a purely statistical standpoint, WWII was overwhelmingly peaceful and Covid is only a serious risk to the compromised and elderly.
- nawgz 6y agoWhy make such a weak strawman? If you have a point to make, do it with information and not ridiculous analogies
- thrwaway2day 6y agoWhat is the strawman? Using statistics in this way is meaningless. Hell, I'd bet by area the capitol hill riots were mostly peaceful. The capitol complex is a large place and I'm certain 51% could be defined as peaceful under a similar definition that burning neighborhoods were this summer.