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No one "burned down cities" and the vast majority of protests in the BLM movement were peaceful. In some cases, property damage and at least one actual murder w
by ytpete 4y ago
No one "burned down cities" and the vast majority of protests in the BLM movement were peaceful. In some cases, property damage and at least one actual murder were traced back to right-wing provocateurs, as well. You have to take that into account when framing things this way.
- smsm42 4y agoThe damage from the riots is estimated in 1-2 billion of dollars. Nice for you to handwave it as "in some cases, property damage" and the classic "fiery, but mostly peaceful" of course. For some people who lived through it and witnessed it, however, it sounds like nothing but apology for lawlessness and wanton destruction. When you will ask yourself "why politics is so polarized in the uS" - that's why. When people hear that for you burning down their business, or trashing their car, or making their city unsafe and unlivable is just "mostly peaceful and some cases of property damage and actually it's probably all right-winger's doing anyway" - they would not trust another word coming from you, ever. Because if we can't agree on something as basic as "arson and mayhem is bad", then there's nothing for us to agree on.
- theonething 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_arson_damage_during_the_George_Floyd_protests_in_Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_arson_damage_during_th... https://www.yahoo.com/video/rioters-set-fire-federal-courthouse-162333860.html https://www.yahoo.com/video/rioters-set-fire-federal-courtho... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_during_the_George_Floyd_protests#Capitol_Riots/Fires_(May_29-June_1,_2020) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_dur...