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Al Sharpton Likens Student Protests to Jan. 6 Capitol Riots: Theyve Lost the Message

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton compared the ongoing pro-Palestine student protests across the United States to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot on Thursday and argued Democrats had lost the moral high ground.

During an appearance on MSNBCs Morning Joe, Sharpton argued, Anytime what you are protesting for becomes secondary to what you are doing, then youre really not protesting for it, and you, in many ways, dramatize.

He continued:

What I did in other situations was to bring attention to a cause, not become the cause, and what is troubling me about lot of this is theyve become the cause. Its about them. It is not about pushing the cause. They need to ask themselves, if they were sincere, are you really focusing on whats going on in Gaza, about the children, about the women, about the innocent people? And in Israel, are you focusing on whether or not you are violent or whether or not you can say the most incendiary statement? How are you guiding this? Its about them and I think theyve lost the message, and I think thats because theyve been infiltrated by people that are not them.

Later on in the show, Sharpton said, How do the Democrats, how do all of us on that side say January 6 was wrong if you can have the same pictures going on on college campuses? You lose the moral high ground.

Al Sharpton says the student protests have "lost the message".

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