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> The question though, are these protests really what he has called them? Are they really a military occupation? Definitely not. Every large scale protest has
by gorwell 5y ago
> The question though, are these protests really what he has called them? Are they really a military occupation?
Definitely not. Every large scale protest has its provocateurs and outliers. Using the outliers to frame the 99% is dishonest to say the least.
To any neutral observer they are overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the working class.
- krapp 5y ago>To any neutral observer they are overwhelmingly peaceful and represent normal working class people. This isn't a neutral observation. "overwhelmingly peaceful and represent normal working class people" exposes a politically-motivated bias.
- gorwell 5y agoDoes it? To a neutral observer the BLM protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the administrative class. To a neutral observer the trucker protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the working class.
- krapp 5y agoSetting aside that no one would attempt to use the term "overwhelmingly peaceful" in a politically neutral matter nowadays unless they were completely naive (it would be like saying "think of the children" in the context of actually arguing for considering childrens' welfare) the word you omitted from the last sentence ("normal") is where the bias comes into play. "Normal" in that case carries the implication that working class people as a whole agree (or should agree) with the protestors, or that anyone who disagrees with them isn't legitimately a member of the working class. More accurately, the protests (both of the truckers and BLM) represent more narrowly defined set of political prinicples than the beliefs of more general classes, which tend not to be as homogeneous in their views as is often portrayed.