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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Tell that to businesses and communities that had everything torched to the ground, vandalized, and their livelihoods destroyed.

A lot of people in those communities are going to end up not giving a shit about sociopath cops when their lives were completely ruined and people are saying "Oh but you have insurance" and "Yeah, but it was for a good cause."

And guess what? They can't even speak out and say "Hey it's fucked up that my fucking life was demolished by some assholes in the name of this movement" and the far left will dogpile on them with whatabouts. And then you have what we had before: those people stay silent, seethe, and then vote Republican when the time comes.

You guys are severely underestimating how these riots are going to turn a lot of people who had lives ruined or who know people who had lives ruined. They looked at Trump trying to stop it and then they look at dopey Joe Biden talking about how to fix this cops need to learn how to shoot people in the legs instead. It's a no brainer. And I say all this while supporting the protests.

See that's what bothers me about all this. We aren't free to point out the faults within something without being labeled as a traitor to that movement. If you criticize anything about these protests, whether it be the looting, arson, assaults on shopowners, people baiting/antagonize police trying to get them to do something wrong, etc., you are labeled as being against the cause, a racist, a right-wing nut, etc.

It's like you have to believe that the protesters are right in everything they do and it's all justified or else you're not on their side. Life is more complicated than that. These protests are a good cause, but some things done during them are not.

This reminds me of the immigration debate a few years back. Around the time the wall was being discussed. To the Left, the immigrants could do no wrong. Nothing was their fault. They were perfect. To the Right, the immigrants were all evil, and there was nothing good about them. It was so black and white. But the reality is, that some of them are good, and others maybe didn't have such good intentions. But if you called any of that out, you were disowned by the other side. Same thing is happening here.

It's OKAY to criticize certain protesters if you are on the Left, just like it is OKAY to criticize certain police if you are on the Right.

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