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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
Saskatoon had a protest a few nights ago, around 1500 people, completely peaceful. Not a single incident. Winnipeg reports the same with an even bigger protest. Calgary did OK to I think?
Canada setting the bar once again for how to get it done.
Mean while in the states, two more officers are killed in the riots.
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Just one quick note from Pittsburgh. Last Saturday we had some small property damage. Brought on by a dumb white kid spraying anarchy symbols and destroying a cop car while valid protesters tried to stop him.
Then Monday there was an outburst of property damage, but they investigated and discovered that the Pittsburgh city police who were "protecting" went in on protesters unprovoked, with tear gas (when they originally said they only used smoke to disperse). The mayor put them up for investigation, reigned them in, and we have had 5 straight days of fully peaceful protests ever since. Not a single incident of looting, no damaged property.
I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
What do you do for a living?
If you truly do condone the looting and rioting. Take your lifes work, and throw it out the window. Because that is what is happening to thousands of American families right now. Families of all colour and religion. COVID was hard enough to keep a business floating, now you have to deal with it all being burned to the ground?
So go ahead, take a pic when you're done to show you truly support it all. It's easy to say you support it, when you aren't the one paying the price.
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Okay, just feel the need to interject a bit here. I agree, damaging and looting small businesses is always wrong.
Make no mistake, though. The government's failure to properly roll out protections and assistance for small businesses is going to wreck far, far more small businesses than any of this looting will. I work for one of these small businesses, and getting actual assistance was damn near impossible. We were weeks away from having to close down entirely before we opened yesterday.
Looting is terrible, don't get me wrong, but the government at large did far worse than any protesters.
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Originally Posted by Igottago
People have died during these riots. Some of them black people. Yeah its easy to think its all worth smashing up a few windows it if it changes things, but there are victims and lives destroyed in this type of reaction too, but no one is talking about that.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-people-killed |
There were people killed during the labor movement, the Civil rights movement, etc. Anytime an attempt at revolution happens, lives are lost. Those in power do not generally give in to peaceful requests.