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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
See these posts are made, and I wonder if people understand what they mean.
"Revolution is rarely neat and tidy and without collateral damage" What you should have written is people die during revolutions, and often the deaths are those of the innocent, on both sides.
It is easy for us to sit behind out computers as call for "revolution" or violent change. It is a very different thing to be standing in the neighbourhoods that will suffer this violent protest and "revolution".
Many of us have no idea the impact of societal violence. Death is ####ing nasty and complete.
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If you're livinng in the neighbourhoods that will suffer, you're already experiencing it.
From the outside, it looks like a choice between protest and riot.
From inside, you're watching your friends and relatives go to jail, get assaulted, be financially ruined or killed.
So, while it might alienate someone watching on CNN, it probably won't alienate anyone watching it happen live on the street. The problem with today's society is by and large average people are prevented from going down to the street to watch it happen themselves.