RE: What is the number?
December 15, 2021 at 6:02 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2021 at 6:32 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Leaving aside the very real and important differences between the 2020 civil rights protests and the January insurrection, let’s look at the numbers. It’s all but impossible to get hard numbers on the participants in each, but we can make some not unreasonable guesses.
A little more than 700 people have been charged in the insurrection. Let’s estimate that 2000 people participated. Estimates for participation in the civil rights protests range from 15-26 million. I’m gonna split the difference and round down…call it 20 million people.
1 person was killed in the insurrection and an estimated 20 in the protests. This means that the protestors in 2020 would had to have killed 10 000 people to equal the proportionate loss of life in the insurrection. Looked at another way, if the protests were on the same scale as the insurrection, the odds would have been 10 000 to 1 against anyone dying. Looked at yet another way, the insurrection was 10 000 times more deadly than the protests.
Boru
A little more than 700 people have been charged in the insurrection. Let’s estimate that 2000 people participated. Estimates for participation in the civil rights protests range from 15-26 million. I’m gonna split the difference and round down…call it 20 million people.
1 person was killed in the insurrection and an estimated 20 in the protests. This means that the protestors in 2020 would had to have killed 10 000 people to equal the proportionate loss of life in the insurrection. Looked at another way, if the protests were on the same scale as the insurrection, the odds would have been 10 000 to 1 against anyone dying. Looked at yet another way, the insurrection was 10 000 times more deadly than the protests.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
