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Originally Posted by Azure
It honestly doesn't matter to me what they stand for. My only point is that there are groups of people organizing themselves to go out and destroy businesses, homes and peoples livelihood, and they do not care about the BLM movement at all.
I just find it hilarious how hard it is to admit that this is happening when there is a massive amount of evidence from official sources (not Trump), from protesters on the ground, videos, etc.
The reason it is important is because most people are headline readers, the media would like you to believe that this is police brutality against protesters rioting and looting in the streets, but that is very much not what is happening.
Most of the protests have been peaceful. Most are emotional, most are angry. Most of the cops involved are doing a great job of handling the situations. But if we are going to make 2 min videos to show how 'America is burning', then I think we should at least be honest about who is making it burn. And like I said, it is not the BLM movement. Not the ACTUAL ones involved.
To me, watching the videos on Twitter that are taking on the ground are extremely moving. You won't get that in the media, which is why the media is part of the problem here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/u...ts-antifa.html |
There is no organization, no groups of people, I have been in a few riots and lack of organization is literally there defining feature, what is happening is any large crowd draws in a few morons who turn to breaking things quickly when they realise the cops can't stop them, that in turn draws in a few more who might not have thought about breaking stuff when they went on the march but are happy to get pulled in once it starts, it doesn't take many, they are drawn to the points of trouble by the noise and the shouting and become a crowd within the larger crowd.
What we will see as these protests go on is more trouble as every idiot kid who doesn't give a tinkers about George Floyd will be turning out to the protests in order to 'have some fun', the trouble ends up causing an expectation of trouble that itself becomes a self fulfilling prophesy but there is no organization at all, I knew there would be trouble in Vancouver in 2011 long before the game started, all of my foster kids (who are the kind of kids that like to break things) were talking about 'do you think there will be another riot?', that conversation was happening all over Vancouver and it made trouble inevitable, and yes if the Nucks make another final if the VPD aren't totally on top of things there will be another riot in Vancouver solely because people expect it.