RE: Nonviolent Protest and Resistance Privileged
February 14, 2017 at 4:00 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2017 at 4:07 pm by paulpablo.)
(February 14, 2017 at 3:57 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I actually think the news media incentivizes violent protest. A non violent protest gets maybe an hour of news coverage. A riot gets 24 hour coverage with numerous experts asking what the people want and how to end the riot. Seems to be that violent protest is actually more effective.
But the coverage is often negative to the cause.
And the violence is usually directed at least partly towards people and property unrelated to the cause the protest is against.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
