LogFAQs > #940063259

Also, this whole "People are only okay with this until it affects them then they change their tune" is just false. I'm sure that's true for some, even many, people. But we have tons of concrete examples of people affected by this who have not only maintained their support for the protests but made a point to raise their voices in support even more after.

https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/31/my-familys-restaurant-caught-fire-protests-let-it-burn-oppressive-systems-with-it/

A man had his family's restaurant burned down in Minneapolis but when his daughter (the author of the op-ed, who admits her initial reaction was anger) checked on him she says she overhears him say, "Let my building burn. Justice needs to be served."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/bishop-budde-trump-church/2020/06/01/20ca70f8-a466-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html

The church Trump used for his photo-op? A fire had been set in its basement amid the protests on Sunday. What were they doing Monday morning (literally earlier in the day before Trump decided to show up?) handing out water bottles and granola bars to the protestors.

Again, sure not everyone are going to have the view of these people, but it's been coming off to me that some in the topic are acting like it's some immutable truth that anyone affected by the property damage just flips a switch and becomes anti-protest and that's just not true.

In an ideal world there'd be no violent aspect to these protests but we're pretty damn far from an ideal world right now (in an ideal world the protests wouldn't be necessary because these things wouldn't keep happening!) and the situation keeps being escalated and it's doing people a disservice to think that some of them can't see that and understand even when it is their lives being affected.

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