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With all due respect, that's not my problem. I am supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. My rights are not supposed to be stripped from me without due pro
by Suzuran 4y ago
With all due respect, that's not my problem. I am supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. My rights are not supposed to be stripped from me without due process. What my neighbor does is irrelevant. The fact that a wrong is common now does not make it less of a wrong.
Edit for clarification: It is not my duty to surrender my rights and accept collective guilt for another's crimes in order to make things easier on government agents.
- prepend 4y agoOf course, you are innocent. But the crowd, as a group, is guilty based on their actions. That’s like saying “I’m not part of this lynch mob, I was just standing next to the tree protesting peacefully. Innocent until proven guilty.” For me, if I’m protesting peacefully and 20% of the crowd starts smashing stuff or burning cars, I’m going to split and disavow them. This isn’t your neighbor who lives next to you that you can’t do anything about. In my city, a peaceful protest turned violent and started smashing stuff. I’m not sure how I avoid that if I was trying to peacefully protest.
- Suzuran 4y agoI can't disavow them because it always cycles back to "You're conveniently hiding the violent protesters!" or "You're denying the protesters as a whole were violent!" I'm not allowed to say "I'm non-violent and don't support violent protest", instead I am supposed to say "Because some some of those protesting discrimination against my people turned violent, I repudiate their cause and am obligated to support discrimination against my people".