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Those "overwhelmingly peaceful" protests caused an estimated $1-2B in property damage, making them the most destructive protests (from an insurance perspective)
by haberman 2y ago
Those "overwhelmingly peaceful" protests caused an estimated $1-2B in property damage, making them the most destructive protests (from an insurance perspective) in the last 50 years: https://www.axios.com/2020/09/16/riots-cost-property-damage https://www.axios.com/2020/09/16/riots-cost-property-damage
- userbinator 2y ago"fiery but mostly peaceful"
- the_gastropod 2y agoDon’t you find it weird that one of these “riots” locations is “across 20 states”, and the remainder have an actual… y’know, single location? Why are we comparing things this way to exaggerate damages and undermine the overwhelming majority of people peacefully protesting? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/05/nearly-all-black-lives-matter-protests-are-peaceful-despite-trump-narrative-report-finds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/05/nearly-all-bla...
- haberman 2y agoAdd up all the riots of 1965 - 1968 and it is still less damage than 2020. That's not an exaggeration, it is what the numbers say. If peaceful protestors find that fact undermining, they should take it up with the violent protestors who caused all this damage, rather than shooting the messenger.
- the_gastropod 2y agoThere are 8. Vs 20 states. These are not comparable in scale whatsoever.