LogFAQs > #980191750

legendary_zell posted...

This is the worst type of liberal, white moderate method policing. If this causes someone to lose the message of the protest and to stop caring about genocide, that's a problem with that person's values, not the protesters.

I agree, it's an issue with someone's values. But...do you think that all the people in the US have good values? I sure don't. I think many have horrible values, but I still need them to vote for policies that I want so I'm going to do what I comfortably can to appeal to them. Obviously, to an extent. But still.

And regarding civil disobedience. Like, the whole point of civil disobedience is to break an unjust law and suffer the unjust punishment of that law. Civil disobedience to some extent requires being arrested and punished. Because it then leads to people talking about bad cops such as:

NoMeLx22x posted...

Ive seen infinitely more people this morning talking about how horrific it is that the police (and the counter protestors at UCLA) were the real violent forces last night. Which is great. It's gotten some people talking about it.