Vestary - you are oversimplifying and assuming that your personal experience is the way paint a brush on millions of people coming into to protest.
I’m not going to deny that there violent elements in these protests - but you have to give it context.
First off this is a reactionary protest to a shocking event… not pre-planned action by a specific group. Groups who are protesting, basically set a time and a place and whoever showed up showed up. And with any protest of that nature especially of the size and scope were seeing - there are those who are going to go with aim of violence or looting - but they don’t represent the majority of the protests.
I’ll break down the four general motivations for those who are resorting to violence.
First - there are those who just want to break things. They exist in this world and they will take any protest of sufficient size where they think they can hide their identity to do so.
Second - the looters - in this case you have to realize the context in which this looting is taking place. 40+ million unemployeed, and states that have been under lockdown since COVID started. Unemployement websites are struggling and often failing to handle the increased traffic and only one payment has gone out to the American public of 1200 dollars. The average american household could not afford to take 400 dollar hit to their monthly budgets. A lot of people are desperate - and the Federal government has failed to take care of them in this time of crisis.
Third - there are racist groups who want to ruin the protest. If they infiltrate the protest and make it look as violent as possible - they can push their own agenda.
Fourth - reaction to Police Brutality. Not all the cops have been using deescalating tactics, some infact have been using the opposite. In such situations - a violent reaction to the police may occur.
This doesn’t excuse the violence used by these individuals but they are just individuals within a larger whole. From what I’ve seen majority of those protests have been peaceful.
Yes, lets just ignore the context that black lives matter is being used it. Maybe it would help if you think of it in the context of black lives matter too. Which in the context where black people are so feared that we get this exaggerated reaction from people. So much fear that people feel they have a right to detain us, ask us questions and kill us if we dare to defend ourselves. Or use us being black against us for doing normal everyday things.
People are going on like this is new and it is not. This is everyday life for a lot of black people. It is just now people are able to film it and or go live with it. People like you disgust me the most. If you are going to hold bigoted or racist views own them. Don’t try to hold the same views as racist but pretend get your fe -fes hurt when someone calls you on it.
tbh i know this sounds bad but the only reason I wanted to attend a protest was in the hope that someone might hug me after months of isolation, no other reason.
I didn’t actually care that much about the cause, but it’s a good enough one I suppose at least when it’s not descending into rioting.
Black ,white color,race,culture all lives matter. I disgust you? whats wrong are you hurt with truth? did I hurt your feelings? I am sure you attended 0 protests and you speak about this from news, I was there and I saw how peaceful it was until haters like you joined and started looting. Now go back to street. You sound like a bigot here, harassing people because you think you are right.
Yes Lilithia, first week was protest for what happened, after it people like this who harassed me joined and started using excuse for their looting and hatred towards government. I didn’t even get any money due to covid from government, people like those got it and they are still not fed enough,their pockets are not full enough.
Who have I hated on? The truth is I think the time for protest have past and it is now the time for people to what really matters and vote. You can protest all you want if you are not at every election, voting on every issue are you are doing is spitting in the wind. I
I do question why do I have be a looter or on the street? Is it because I am black you just going to assume that is what I do? You claim not to be a bigot or racist but your words tell a different story.
As for the looters, there are people that go to protest just to loot. It is what they do, black, white and all other. It is just like people who go to sites of natural disasters to loot the homes there.
Time for protests ended when officers were arrested and I hope they will burn in hell and remain in history as shame of the racist people and the law. Since first week I left protects because looters came in and you tell me what is going on protects when you didn’t even attend it? no one said you are looter because you are black you are one saying that.
Race and culture has nothing to do with person being criminal,racist,looter or etc. Its just this nasty people who do something like this officers did to ruin how one thinks about specific race. Just because those cops were nasty and they really deserve to burn in hell doesn’t means all cops are like this, just because some robber is black doesn’t means all black people are like this.
What I am trying to say is that, people are using this as excuse to loot and burn down streets, this people needs to be arrested regardless of their race but they can’t be arrested you know why? people stands there and tells police you are racist for arresting that guy who did peaceful protest while looting store! its people who are ignorant about this and they can’t see criminal using this as excuse. Family of victim said they don’t want all this chaos and riots, but criminal does it and keeps doing it.
I don’t know where you live but here in Alabama they are being arrested when caught. A crime is a crime and it does not matter if they are black or white. You have to ignore people when they are against arresting looters.
I would not say it is. My comment is based off of the content if your post and my personal experience dealing with people who like to deal in a certain kind of rhetoric. It is an opinion and one that you do not seem fond of I might add.
I realize this is an unpopular view, but I think there should be more chat channels. “Trade” would be separate from “Social” or “Hot Topics”. And if enough people reported someone as being in the wrong category they could get it automatically moved to the right category.
Imagine that you go to a doctor with a broken foot. And that doctor starts looking at your hand. You tell your doctor that your foot is the part that matters right now. And the doctor responds with “All Parts Matter”.
Black Lives Matter aren’t claiming that other lives don’t matter. They are saying that their lives matter too, and they are the ones that are hurting right now.
The problem is that some believe not just due to bigoted attitudes, but they literally believe what they are saying on an almost spiritual level, that ‘anyone can make it’ that it’s all up to the individual and the only person who can help someone is themselves.
Any suggestion that there is any kind of system in place that puts certain people in society at a disadvantage seems to be beyond peoples comprehension. You see if you were born as a black person in a ghetto the assumption is that you can just close your eyes listening to spiritual philosophies like The Secret and bang you can magically get out of a life of poverty and disadvantage.
Sadly that’s not the reality, no amount of meditation and positive attitude can change the fact that there’s a system in place that makes it very hard if not impossible for people to move out of the ghetto to areas with less crime.
Idc if people talk about politics, the only real problem with it is that People get upset, like the op, and it quickly divulges into stuff that IS reportable.
This forum is called General Discussion. Now it might be implied that it’s general discussion about WOW, but it could also be implied it’s about general discussion among WOW players about anything. My recommendation is don’t read topics you don’t want to read about, and move on. Personally I’d like to see more Mage Tower topics because those never get old.
Look, a black man got murdered brutally by a cop so of course lots of people are going to be talking about it, I admit that the only thing I wanted was just to get back to normal life not worrying about the rest of the world, but the reality is it’s one thing after another in this crazed place
I am so frustrated…first I got heavily condemned by dismissing bogan suburbs saying that I was just needlessly insulting people, but here is the truth that the people causing trouble, the rioters, are from the Democrat leaning suburbs of USA, which I have to say, is not at all surprising.
The conservative people might be bigots at times but they at least don’t go torching peoples property and smashing peoples stuff…I mean, I did regret siding with China a few months back for starting covid-19 in the first place, but I wasn’t wrong about the people in those poorer areas being the trouble makers causing crime, starting trouble, needing some kind of intervention, if you don’t believe me after what you seen with the rioting I don’t know what will…
There is only one choice now and that’s to give Trump a second term to restore law and order as if something is not done with these imbeciles smashing people’s stuff now, it will be total anarchy!! They have to do something about these people, they are a danger to themselves and others!