RE: Nonviolent Protest and Resistance Privileged
February 14, 2017 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2017 at 1:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 14, 2017 at 1:19 pm)Exian Wrote: And you said you could point a gun at a cop. That would be violent white privilege, wouldn't it? I guess we'd have to agree the lines are blurred.The perpetrators of the oregan wildlife standoff were acquitted. That doesn't seem blurry, at all, to me. Pretty cut and dry. One of the things they were found not guilty of....work this one out in your mind...was possession of firearms in a federal facility.........
Quote:They proved the narrative wrong by controlling it with non-violence. The public became incensed, as you stated. Particularly when a woman, whose name slips my mind, gave her account on live tv, that was abruptly cut into, but the news already grabbed it and ran with it, and more after bloody sunday. Would the public have been so incensed had the protesters been violent from the start? I say no.They were told that they were regardless, and many believed it. You're having a disconnect between what you know, now, and the perception then. Yes, there came a point at which state propaganda was no longer sufficiently compelling.
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