
Not that I think the protests as a whole are bad but when stuff like this happens I think there tends to be some opportunists who just start looting random small businesses, which I do find pretty unfortunate. I don’t think that should necessarily take away from the cause, but I do think a lot of people’s feelings about it are influenced by that. It’s similar to some of the BLM protests in 2020 in that regard
Ok well I’m not really trying to make claims about whether or not the BLM protestors were causing violence, I’m saying there were people who took advantage of the chaos to just loot and destroy storefronts of like family businesses and stuff. These generally aren’t people who I think actually care about the cause people are protesting for, and their actions tend to undermine the protests. Like there’s obviously a discrepancy in a lot of people’s minds when you say “100% of BLM protests were
nonviolent” compared to the losses suffered by a lot of people probably closer to the common man than some capitalist fat cat. I’m not trying to say people are right for associating these people with the protests themselves, but I do think it undermines the public perception of these protests when people do shit like that
I’m sorry, what? That is such a rewrite of history. The whole of Downtown crossing in Boston was smashed up and looted. That was not the cops. That story was reported everywhere. They firebombed a government building in Portland. There were multiple mob assaults filmed on camera. The BLM protests in the morning were usually fine, but turned into riots and looting by the evening. Even the BLM organization was stealing, wym?