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Near where I live, one of the BLM protestors tried to burn down the local 911 center. He’s currently in prison for arson. Haven’t seen anything like that in th

Near where I live, one of the BLM protestors tried to burn down the local 911 center. He’s currently in prison for arson. Haven’t seen anything like that in this protest, but honestly I haven’t been looking too close.

mwarkentin 5y ago
Obviously a lot of details unknown at this point, but: https://globalnews.ca/news/8600592/trucker-convoy-police-investigating-arson-apartment/ https://globalnews.ca/news/8600592/trucker-convoy-police-inv...
stjohnswarts 5y ago
Was he really a BLM protestor or just an arsonist looking for an opening to burn something down?
- pyuser583 5y ago
  He had been involved in the protests for a while. He was part of a crowd of very angry protestors when he threw the incendiary. He had no previous convictions of arson.
  - stjohnswarts 5y ago
    You are trying to associate all BLM protestors with arson and it's simply a logical leap that I don't see how anyone can make.
flyingcircus3 5y ago
Why are the extreme examples of other events the baseline threshold for problems at subsequent events?
- pyuser583 5y ago
  Because we evaluate the extremity of events relative to each other.
  - flyingcircus3 5y ago
    But we don't allow the extremes of barely related events to calibrate what should or shouldn't be alarming about other events.
    - pyuser583 5y ago
      Comparing civil disturbances with other civil disturbances is fair. Martin Luther Kings March on Selma can be compared (very favorably) to the Night of Broken Glass. The BLM protests involved a much larger number of people, and last much longer (so far). It makes it easier to cherry lick bad examples. It’s fair to say what we’re seeing in Canada is like the worst of the BLM condensed into a few weeks. But I stayed away from the BLM protests, so I only saw them when they came to me. Like so: https://youtu.be/vSgI0vCoLMY https://youtu.be/vSgI0vCoLMY Edit: to be clear I was present when this happened
      - flyingcircus3 5y ago
        You're disregarding my premise, and arguing against something else. The severity of the BLM protests in no way sets precedence for other protests, nor informs the minimum level of violence/destruction/disruption that must occur before other protests are criticized and acknowledged as traumatic for the people whose lives have been disrupted. These events stand on their own, and aren't somehow offset by another protest, or absolved by another protest. It's not an overton window.
        cato_the_elder 5y ago
        > The severity of the BLM protests in no way sets precedence for other protests, nor informs the minimum level of violence/destruction/disruption that must occur before other protests are criticized and acknowledged as traumatic for the people whose lives have been disrupted. But the comparison does inform us on how biased and hypocratical the media and the ruling class are.

mwarkentin 5y ago

Obviously a lot of details unknown at this point, but: https://globalnews.ca/news/8600592/trucker-convoy-police-investigating-arson-apartment/ https://globalnews.ca/news/8600592/trucker-convoy-police-inv...

stjohnswarts 5y ago

Was he really a BLM protestor or just an arsonist looking for an opening to burn something down?

pyuser583 5y ago
He had been involved in the protests for a while. He was part of a crowd of very angry protestors when he threw the incendiary. He had no previous convictions of arson.
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  You are trying to associate all BLM protestors with arson and it's simply a logical leap that I don't see how anyone can make.

flyingcircus3 5y ago

Why are the extreme examples of other events the baseline threshold for problems at subsequent events?

pyuser583 5y ago
Because we evaluate the extremity of events relative to each other.
- flyingcircus3 5y ago
  But we don't allow the extremes of barely related events to calibrate what should or shouldn't be alarming about other events.
  - pyuser583 5y ago
    Comparing civil disturbances with other civil disturbances is fair. Martin Luther Kings March on Selma can be compared (very favorably) to the Night of Broken Glass. The BLM protests involved a much larger number of people, and last much longer (so far). It makes it easier to cherry lick bad examples. It’s fair to say what we’re seeing in Canada is like the worst of the BLM condensed into a few weeks. But I stayed away from the BLM protests, so I only saw them when they came to me. Like so: https://youtu.be/vSgI0vCoLMY https://youtu.be/vSgI0vCoLMY Edit: to be clear I was present when this happened
    - flyingcircus3 5y ago
      You're disregarding my premise, and arguing against something else. The severity of the BLM protests in no way sets precedence for other protests, nor informs the minimum level of violence/destruction/disruption that must occur before other protests are criticized and acknowledged as traumatic for the people whose lives have been disrupted. These events stand on their own, and aren't somehow offset by another protest, or absolved by another protest. It's not an overton window.
      - cato_the_elder 5y ago
        > The severity of the BLM protests in no way sets precedence for other protests, nor informs the minimum level of violence/destruction/disruption that must occur before other protests are criticized and acknowledged as traumatic for the people whose lives have been disrupted. But the comparison does inform us on how biased and hypocratical the media and the ruling class are.