US Politics on Yik Yak | It’s crazy the amount of people that don’t know the difference between a protest and a riot (mlk and Rosa parks were protests, not burning down things and assaulting law enforcement and federal agents) i said what i said

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It’s crazy the amount of people that don’t know the difference between a protest and a riot (mlk and Rosa parks were protests, not burning down things and assaulting law enforcement and federal agents) i said what i said

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Anonymous 14w

You do realize that there was property damage in the 60’s, too, right? Protests have always been unpopular in their time and then whitewashed in retrospect.

Anonymous 14w

I’m pretty much ALL of mlk protests where it got violent, from what I’ve been looking at, it was the fault of the police or people against the protests. The police were the instigators Do you think it was reported in the news this way? Do you really think that the news said “the police attacked peaceful protests.” Some did. Not all, especially not in racist areas.

Anonymous 14w

Who gives a shit about property damage- especially when it’s from the rich

Anonymous

#1 14w

Only after mlk was assasinated was there property damage, because he supported peaceful protests

Anonymous

OP 14w

Are you seriously making the claim that there was *zero* property damage at Civil Rights protests before MLK was assassinated?

Anonymous

OP 14w

MLK *desired* for protests to be peaceful because he was conscious of winning the optics game, but that doesn’t mean that *zero* property damage occurred on his watch.

Anonymous

#1 14w

Zero at all probably not, but very very minimal, find me an article that shows any rioting at his protests and not after he was assasinated

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Anonymous

OP 14w

I never made the claim that riots *did not* happen after he was assassinated; it is a well-known fact that riots did happen. I also am not aware of any riots that happened at protests that MLK presided over; I only made the claim that property damage occurred (likely comparable to what we’re seeing in LA) at his protests. I’m happy to supply evidence to my claim, but please engage with the claim that I am making.

Anonymous

#1 14w

Ok show me evidence of assaulting law enforcement, federal agents, burning cars destroying innocent persons property, etc.

Anonymous

OP 14w

This isn’t hard *evidence*, but I want to start with this, because in the same way that MLK’s protests were probably mostly peaceful but with a small element of property damage and altercations with law enforcement, this is what conservative media made him out to look like in his day.

Anonymous

OP 14w

I can get you some approval statistics next.

Anonymous

OP 14w

I’m doing some reading about his protests in Chicago right now. It may be more productive to give you anecdotes than to give you approval numbers.

Anonymous

OP 14w

I would encourage you to Google “Birmingham Campaign Window Breaking and Looting”. It sounds like MLK’s Birmingham protest played out a lot like how each day of the LA protest has: disciplined and peaceful at first, but more chaotic and destructive as time went on and tensions raised. If you don’t want to Google for it, I can send you some hard evidence/articles later. I’m just sleepy.

Anonymous

#1 14w

That’s not proof that anything happened that’s a drawing

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Anonymous

OP 14w

Media can make anything look like anything just to win over their side

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Anonymous

OP 14w

Did you not read what I said along with the political cartoon? Jesus

Anonymous

OP 14w

https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/in-defense-of-looting-turning-the-white-supremacist-narrative-upside-down This article touches a little on violence/looting in Birmingham.

Anonymous

#1 14w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_riot_of_1963