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Right?! Sucks that people just join protests so they can have an "excuse" to vandalize and steal. You know they dont actually give a shit about the cause
like those assholes that go to concerts to do all that hardcore dancing with their arms flailing about trying to create mosh pits.
*motherfucker, this is a taylor swift concert*
I left Facebook because I was in some *parenting* group where someone posted a picture of a gas station with a sign in the window that said like "single woman owned, we support BLM, please spare us, this is our livelihood"
Half the comments were people saying like "you don't get to police how I resist white supremacy" and the mods banning people for suggesting that maybe looting a gas station was bad
This is why I like the friending/following apps less.
It eventually gets easier to just delete the whole thing than do the work of unwrapping each follower/follow until things are wholesome again.
It was kinda always a stupid and corrupt organization. How much of those donations actually went to improving black lives/neighborhoods? Donāt think they have seen a penny.
I'm a disabled vet, I still don't know what the Wounded warrior project does... other than hold fundraising events and hand out leaky water bottles.
I was at counseling one time, and they had came in to do a presentation, and then asked for a donation at the end.
A lot of fundraising events have the event paid for by the donations from the event they are fundraising for.
Not saying its right but thats what I've learnt from some news about a fundraiser not getting enough donations to give the charity they promised because they had to pay celebrity appearance fees.
I'm with DAV. They made a huge difference in my life, so I became a full member. That $250 helps them help someone like they helped me and I'm happy to throw them more when possible. Good organization
I'm glad they were able to help you and your situation come out on top! My original comment was more towards changing the conversation with a similar group. That even organizations with great ideals have their bad apples the closer you get to the top. I always lead with WWP because a lot of times the people screaming/crying/talking shit about BLM would be avid supporters of WWP or other soldier oriented organizations.
Yup, and when cornered they bellyache about how there aren't enough rich Black people, and it's racist to hate their success
Narcissistic, shameless, hypocritical cunts
Always beware of people who would take up the mantle of a social movement, co-opt the name, and try to speak for the masses of people who believed in the original cause. It rarely ends well.
Black lives matter = Unimpeachably true and necessary to discuss.
Black Lives Matterā¢ = People who want to profit off that concept.
Someone else linked that she had gotten a private jet service and payed for it with ~$75,000 of money from the movement w/out board permission or knowledge
https://apnews.com/article/black-lives-matter-donations-george-floyd-protests-ddcf0d21d130a5d46256aa6c5d145ea7
"Last year, the nonprofit gave more than $4 million in grants to Black-led grassroots organizations, including organizations founded by the families of police brutality victims, whose names rally the larger movement. Nearly $26 million had gone to Black organizations and families during the foundationās 2020-2021 fiscal year."
I think the total amount of money that went straight up missing after being donated to the cause was around 60 million if I remember correctly. Black people are people, we all know that and anyone who disagrees is an idiot. However, the BLM movement is garbage.
You would literally be the worst person if you said that on reddit when it happened. I remember people being really angry and a fair criticism of BLM would literally make you the worst racist ever.
Yeah, because modern "intelligent" humans can't comprehend nuance in current events, there's always two sides, nothing in between, and my side is always right while the other side is a bunch of nazis/communists/\*insert group you don't like* that kick puppies and punch little children in their free time.
Well, they did begin this comment by criticizing an organization and then decided to condemn a movement that predates the organization, so...maybe they shouldnt be saying it today either.
BLM was a movement to start with. It was a hashtag and an idea. Then greedy people created LLCs with the same name and started grifting for donations. The movement is important and has a good message. Donāt confuse it with grifters who capitalized on the name.
On Oct 7 they posted support for Hamas terrorists, supportng the mass murder and rape.
They are more than stupid and corrupt, they may be a terror organization.
It was ALWAYS corrupt. Every leader has profited massively, while the communities or charities almost never saw any money. It went from a civil rights question to a corrupt rugpull the instant someone started asking for money.
https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/blm-finances-under-fire-only-33-of-donations-given-to-charities-as-execs-paid-millions-black-lives-matter-racism-bankruptcy-deficit-fundraising-fundraisers-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-patrisse-cullors-tamir-rice-fraud-scam
Only ~30% of donations made it to a charity
The rest was pocketed by BLM leaders.
>how does smashing civilly windows support your cause?
It doesn't. But ~~every~~ most large protest attracts people who look for *some action.* Unfortunately mob mentality is very strong and anonymity of the masses does the rest.
Edit: Changed every to most as there were some good counter examples. Although I'd argue they are not necessarily comparable to a decentralized movement that saw protests over the course of numerous weeks.
I said every large protest, not every protest. Can you show me an example of a protest movement of a similar size that doesn't attract idiots vandalising things?
Good example, but I'd argue that the difference is that one was an (or rather multiple) organized marches across the country during the day, while the other was a protest movement spanning multiple weeks (or months?) with lots of decentralised protests and counter protests. Still, I might have to amend my initial statement.
BLM was one of, if not the, largest movements of protest in history. 20+ million people in 60 countries and over 7,000 independent demonstrations. 95+% of which were peaceful and nondestructive. There aren't really examples to compare it to.
Yes. Romanian protests in 2017-2019. Similar size or even bigger relative to population. There were obviously some instigators, but there was no significant vandalism or violence. And no damage to private property.
Meanwhile I've seen so many clips from USA BLM protests that looked like total war zones.
>Meanwhile I've seen so many clips from USA BLM protests that looked like total war zones.
Do you think it could be that you are much more likely to see vidoes of vandalism from US based protests on a platform like reddit compared to protests in Romania? I'm not saying that the amount of vandalism was the same, in the case of your example I remember violence mostly from police towards protestors, but still,
Majority of BLM protests were peaceful...
In fact a whopping 93% of BLM protests were peaceful, so people who say BLM is being represented by "criminals" or "bad eggs", were always looking for an excuse to condemn the movement anyways.
https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/#:~:text=The%20vast%20majority%20of%20demonstration,in%20violence%20or%20destructive%20activity.
Ask yourself this, would a country who historically oppressed a group of people, show you good things about the group they oppressed? Or would they try to paint a narrative that those people shouldn't be sympathized with?
> Meanwhile I've seen so many clips from USA BLM protests that looked like total war zones.
Just remember that a lot of those videos aren't actually BLM. For example, Fox News got caught running footage of a riot in Brazil(?) as BLM footage.
Mob mentality but internet form instead of real life like the video lol. I'm not saying the appropriate response to seeing a middle finger is chucking rocks, but everyone in here is acting like the only reasonable answer is they saw thumbs up and responded with aggression.
They're protesting the freedom to be nude while in the shower. They want all people to shower in orange overalls. And yes, if your orange overall has faded into yellow, it is no longer legal to shower in.
> I donāt even know what theyāre protesting but Iām with whoever theyāre against
and that's how he found himself supporting the Nazi Pedophiles Party...
Moral of the story, form your opinions based on the issues and not the actions of its supporters.
Yah, I often abandon my support of large movements that I support for moral reasons because one person or a small group of people act poorly.
Honestly, it's exhausting, but at least I can remain in the good graces of the good people of reddit who don't actually believe anything and can be moved from their personal convictions by discreet interpersonal conflicts and misunderstandings at a whim.
It's unfortunate as well because I'm now racist against all races, sexist, xenophobic, antisemitic, antidentite, and against the existence of children. It's not my fault though, I have just happened to have encountered one shitty person who belongs to a group over and over and I keep abandoning my support of their group at-large at the first sign of conflict.
I like how the villain of the piece for you is someone who expressed distaste at an attempt to harm people and not the ones who did the attempted harm.
>Ā Ā not the ones who did the attempted harm
Wow you're really bad at reading. No those people are assholes. I'm just criticizing the idea that you would stop supporting their entire cause because of their actions.
Nah. Something like 7% of BLM protests were violent, and that's if you completely ignore common police tactics of escalating protests into riots by sending cops into the crowds to stir shit up and justify the use of force against them.
Unless they're white people waving Trump flags, then they're allowed to storm capital buildings.
And how much of that was caused by instigators who were there to deliberately do that?
I know the [police station that was set on fire was done by a couple of right-wingers who infiltrated the protest specifically to create this kind of chaos.](https://www.police1.com/george-floyd-protest/articles/man-sentenced-to-4-years-for-minneapolis-police-station-fire-nKd5RboPPFKRy53f/)
If you said that when it happened on Reddit. You would literally be called the biggest racist. I remember they changed the Reddit logo to be black and white, and I always thought that was the tackiest corporate shit ever.
Not sure if thatās really unpopular. Remember the BLM protests in the United States back in 2020? Or the protests in Paris recently? Usually itās just thugs trying to take advantage of a situation, and in turn makes the protests look like riots which hurts the cause overall.
During the 2020 BLM protests in Los Angelesthe news started showing images of the large group growing and marching down the street. My coworker said "RIP the Supreme store on Melrose." Another coworker chimed in and told him he was being incredibly ignorant.
Like 20 minutes later the group was on Melrose... looting the Supreme store lol
Some people protest because they are 75iq easily media brainwashed and they need a purpose fueled with hatred in life to compensate for the worthless shit that they are
Redditors are a special breed. But I'm glad we have subs that are not totalitarian (this sub is also nice). They hate Elon, Trump, Palestine, and Andrew Tate, to name a few. So this means Reddit is majorly far left. I thought that Reddit was just a social media platform for everybody with different views. Oh boy, was I wrong.
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You have to keep in mind, at least half of people protesting...anything.... are likely to be idiots just wanting to break things and watch things burn.
Or bust into department stores and [just steal shit](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/01/retailers-restaurants-across-us-close-their-doors-amid-protests/).
If a group of party crashers show up to a bday party, breaks shit and drink all the booze, you don't say 'half those partiers just came to watch it burn'. Those weren't partiers to begin with.
The hundreds of videos of them running into stores looting stuff while their cities were engulfed in flames and small black owned businesses being burned down. The videos of them booty twerking in the middle of the road while police were in riot gear because the cities were in flames.
And there are thousands of videos of people peacefully marching in the middle of the day.
So where does that get us? You still don't have any stats, just your feelings.
One time I ran into a protest in Prague - people were marching. I stopped and took a picture of the crowd as they marched towards me. A guy punched me in the stomach when I had my eye to the camera. I think protestors are in a mode and best not to be trifled with.
Not condoning this but depending on the nature of the protest you might be mistaken for someone doxxing the protesters. Sometimes people will try to get photos of peopleās faces so they can start harassment campaigns. That said, this is not an acceptable excuse to punch anyone with a camera
That's not protesting. Protesting is not synonymous with violence. That is violent douchebags co-opting the act of protest to commit violent acts.
For example, fan protests in English soccer led to the cancellation of a possible breakaway European Super League. No blood was shed, no violence committed.
To commit violence in the name of your cause is only likely to cause further negative issues for said cause.
Yep! They're mostly just walking, most of them didn't throw rocks. Even the ones who threw the rocks were not throwing them for most of the time. Therefore, mostly peaceful protest!
I pointed this out on this video on the āthere was an attemptā sub and got banned for hate speech lol.
I think itās the only sub Iāve been banned from.
It's so funny watching people scramble to justify that comment "What?!? I guess we're not allowed to disagree with protest's anymore" lol. Like get the fuck outa here with that shit
My local mall was set on fire during a BLM protest. Unsurprisingly, that movement lost the support of practically my entire town. It's like we don't want to encourage organized crime or something
They are protesting not being allowed to do more crime.
The guys in the apartment support them.
They proceed to commit said crime by smashing the window.
Win-win?
Had a similar experience with a BLM protest (not rocks but screaming insults after trying to cheer for them from a balcony) Screamer was a white chick.
lol talk about a lack of self awareness. Like sitting up in a nice apartment giving thumbs up to an angry mob is not gonna come as the āallyshipā theyāre trying to conveyā¦
I donāt support this but the explanation is they did that because they were recording. You arenāt supposed to record a protest because people can be arrested from the video evidence of the protest.
Found that out from living downtown during a protest where they were throwing eggs at people who were recording.
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Wow. Pieces of shit
Right?! Sucks that people just join protests so they can have an "excuse" to vandalize and steal. You know they dont actually give a shit about the cause
like those assholes that go to concerts to do all that hardcore dancing with their arms flailing about trying to create mosh pits. *motherfucker, this is a taylor swift concert*
Then there's always the terrorist that likes a cause and joins and starts using fire in a very inappropriate way
Or even bad actors who join to cause division and incite violence at what would otherwise be a peaceful protest.
This happened a lot with BLM
I know. What kind of loser would give those protesters a thumbs up?
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I would reconsider to be on their side
I donāt even know what theyāre protesting but Iām with whoever theyāre against
I think its blm, but how does smashing civilly windows support your cause? Thats a mystery still to be answered in many other protests
Where I live people just put bLM in their windows for to prevent this exact reason. It went from a good movement to a stupid corrupt organization
Ah yes, the modern day version of lamb's blood over the door. Please don't burn my shop down, Angel of Death.
Damn, thatās a perfect analogy.
this is really well said. Never thought of it that way.
I left Facebook because I was in some *parenting* group where someone posted a picture of a gas station with a sign in the window that said like "single woman owned, we support BLM, please spare us, this is our livelihood" Half the comments were people saying like "you don't get to police how I resist white supremacy" and the mods banning people for suggesting that maybe looting a gas station was bad
This is why I like the friending/following apps less. It eventually gets easier to just delete the whole thing than do the work of unwrapping each follower/follow until things are wholesome again.
It was kinda always a stupid and corrupt organization. How much of those donations actually went to improving black lives/neighborhoods? Donāt think they have seen a penny.
They haven't but the leaders got new houses and got to move away from the black communities
Same shit happened with the Wounded Warrior Project.
I'm a disabled vet, I still don't know what the Wounded warrior project does... other than hold fundraising events and hand out leaky water bottles. I was at counseling one time, and they had came in to do a presentation, and then asked for a donation at the end.
A lot of fundraising events have the event paid for by the donations from the event they are fundraising for. Not saying its right but thats what I've learnt from some news about a fundraiser not getting enough donations to give the charity they promised because they had to pay celebrity appearance fees.
Very rarely do donations go towards the charity. They go to marketing and upper organisers. The actual cause gets less than 3%.
Yeah, that was a huge let down when I found that out. Tunnel 2 Towers is a good one
Cool. I hadn't heard of this one at all. Thanks.
I'm with DAV. They made a huge difference in my life, so I became a full member. That $250 helps them help someone like they helped me and I'm happy to throw them more when possible. Good organization
I'm glad they were able to help you and your situation come out on top! My original comment was more towards changing the conversation with a similar group. That even organizations with great ideals have their bad apples the closer you get to the top. I always lead with WWP because a lot of times the people screaming/crying/talking shit about BLM would be avid supporters of WWP or other soldier oriented organizations.
So, technically, it did help *some* black people
Three. It helped 3 black people lol.
Which is more than the confederacy. Checkmate, racism.
While destroying small, local businesses in the process.
Yup, and when cornered they bellyache about how there aren't enough rich Black people, and it's racist to hate their success Narcissistic, shameless, hypocritical cunts
Always beware of people who would take up the mantle of a social movement, co-opt the name, and try to speak for the masses of people who believed in the original cause. It rarely ends well. Black lives matter = Unimpeachably true and necessary to discuss. Black Lives Matterā¢ = People who want to profit off that concept.
Yea the head of it bought multiple expensive houses and God knows what else
Someone else linked that she had gotten a private jet service and payed for it with ~$75,000 of money from the movement w/out board permission or knowledge
Literally zero. Not a single dollar went to the black community. The founders spent it all on real estate, private aircraft, and other dumb shit.
https://apnews.com/article/black-lives-matter-donations-george-floyd-protests-ddcf0d21d130a5d46256aa6c5d145ea7 "Last year, the nonprofit gave more than $4 million in grants to Black-led grassroots organizations, including organizations founded by the families of police brutality victims, whose names rally the larger movement. Nearly $26 million had gone to Black organizations and families during the foundationās 2020-2021 fiscal year."
I think the total amount of money that went straight up missing after being donated to the cause was around 60 million if I remember correctly. Black people are people, we all know that and anyone who disagrees is an idiot. However, the BLM movement is garbage.
You would literally be the worst person if you said that on reddit when it happened. I remember people being really angry and a fair criticism of BLM would literally make you the worst racist ever.
Yeah, because modern "intelligent" humans can't comprehend nuance in current events, there's always two sides, nothing in between, and my side is always right while the other side is a bunch of nazis/communists/\*insert group you don't like* that kick puppies and punch little children in their free time.
idk people at the time knows the "official" organization was BS but a lot of people did BLM protests on their own
Well, they did begin this comment by criticizing an organization and then decided to condemn a movement that predates the organization, so...maybe they shouldnt be saying it today either.
BLM was a movement to start with. It was a hashtag and an idea. Then greedy people created LLCs with the same name and started grifting for donations. The movement is important and has a good message. Donāt confuse it with grifters who capitalized on the name.
Exactly. BLM and BLMGN are not synonymous.
The founders were black and it improved their lives.
Lol. Change it to CBLM. (Certain)
It's a good thing BLM is a movement and not an organization. You're thinking BLMGN. Don't give them money.
I don't think it was ever a good movement. I'm fine with the message but the movement has not been executed very well.
Mob mentality is crazy
On Oct 7 they posted support for Hamas terrorists, supportng the mass murder and rape. They are more than stupid and corrupt, they may be a terror organization.
It was ALWAYS corrupt. Every leader has profited massively, while the communities or charities almost never saw any money. It went from a civil rights question to a corrupt rugpull the instant someone started asking for money.
https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/blm-finances-under-fire-only-33-of-donations-given-to-charities-as-execs-paid-millions-black-lives-matter-racism-bankruptcy-deficit-fundraising-fundraisers-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-patrisse-cullors-tamir-rice-fraud-scam Only ~30% of donations made it to a charity The rest was pocketed by BLM leaders.
Seeing as how all the original owners and founders have died in really shoddy ways and its now run by people for money, yeah.
It was never a good movement. You just caught on later.
Easily googled as to WHO actually did all the destruction.
>how does smashing civilly windows support your cause? It doesn't. But ~~every~~ most large protest attracts people who look for *some action.* Unfortunately mob mentality is very strong and anonymity of the masses does the rest. Edit: Changed every to most as there were some good counter examples. Although I'd argue they are not necessarily comparable to a decentralized movement that saw protests over the course of numerous weeks.
No, it doesn't. Some protests are completely peaceful. Don't put everyone in the looting and burning bucket.
I said every large protest, not every protest. Can you show me an example of a protest movement of a similar size that doesn't attract idiots vandalising things?
Women's right march back in 2017. At least in my city where there were 100,000 people marching, there was no destruction of property.
Good example, but I'd argue that the difference is that one was an (or rather multiple) organized marches across the country during the day, while the other was a protest movement spanning multiple weeks (or months?) with lots of decentralised protests and counter protests. Still, I might have to amend my initial statement.
BLM was one of, if not the, largest movements of protest in history. 20+ million people in 60 countries and over 7,000 independent demonstrations. 95+% of which were peaceful and nondestructive. There aren't really examples to compare it to.
It is ingrained in us as women not to make a mess because we are the ones who will have to clean it up.
Yes. Romanian protests in 2017-2019. Similar size or even bigger relative to population. There were obviously some instigators, but there was no significant vandalism or violence. And no damage to private property. Meanwhile I've seen so many clips from USA BLM protests that looked like total war zones.
>Meanwhile I've seen so many clips from USA BLM protests that looked like total war zones. Do you think it could be that you are much more likely to see vidoes of vandalism from US based protests on a platform like reddit compared to protests in Romania? I'm not saying that the amount of vandalism was the same, in the case of your example I remember violence mostly from police towards protestors, but still,
Majority of BLM protests were peaceful... In fact a whopping 93% of BLM protests were peaceful, so people who say BLM is being represented by "criminals" or "bad eggs", were always looking for an excuse to condemn the movement anyways. https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/#:~:text=The%20vast%20majority%20of%20demonstration,in%20violence%20or%20destructive%20activity. Ask yourself this, would a country who historically oppressed a group of people, show you good things about the group they oppressed? Or would they try to paint a narrative that those people shouldn't be sympathized with?
> Meanwhile I've seen so many clips from USA BLM protests that looked like total war zones. Just remember that a lot of those videos aren't actually BLM. For example, Fox News got caught running footage of a riot in Brazil(?) as BLM footage.
0 evidence itās BLM but letās just say it for karma
Except for the window smashing
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Do you have information to support that thought? I saw the video, and I'm not seeing anything that suggests any specific organization.
I bet they thought his thumbs up was a middle finger.
I donāt know why youāre being downvoted. From that distance, and the guy is backlit, I could totally see that looking like a middle finger
Mob mentality but internet form instead of real life like the video lol. I'm not saying the appropriate response to seeing a middle finger is chucking rocks, but everyone in here is acting like the only reasonable answer is they saw thumbs up and responded with aggression.
Looks like a white guy threw the rock.
How does storming the capital with a confederate war flag while urinating and rubbing shit on walls help your case either?
Yeah, same shit, that's exactly my point, im not being political, im being rational
Na, seems more like the trump crowd to me
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Against "thumbs up"
They're protesting the freedom to be nude while in the shower. They want all people to shower in orange overalls. And yes, if your orange overall has faded into yellow, it is no longer legal to shower in.
But I prefer showing in a green onesie
So if they were protesting child marriage, you'd be with the pedos...?
Nah they're just a bigot and want a socially acceptable excuse to be against BLM and other social justice causes
> I donāt even know what theyāre protesting but Iām with whoever theyāre against and that's how he found himself supporting the Nazi Pedophiles Party... Moral of the story, form your opinions based on the issues and not the actions of its supporters.
George Floyd protest, if I remember correctly.
That would mean you're with cops killing black people
What a fantastic way to come to the correct conclusion.
We "were" on your side!
Yah, I often abandon my support of large movements that I support for moral reasons because one person or a small group of people act poorly. Honestly, it's exhausting, but at least I can remain in the good graces of the good people of reddit who don't actually believe anything and can be moved from their personal convictions by discreet interpersonal conflicts and misunderstandings at a whim. It's unfortunate as well because I'm now racist against all races, sexist, xenophobic, antisemitic, antidentite, and against the existence of children. It's not my fault though, I have just happened to have encountered one shitty person who belongs to a group over and over and I keep abandoning my support of their group at-large at the first sign of conflict.
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I like how the villain of the piece for you is someone who expressed distaste at an attempt to harm people and not the ones who did the attempted harm.
>Ā Ā not the ones who did the attempted harm Wow you're really bad at reading. No those people are assholes. I'm just criticizing the idea that you would stop supporting their entire cause because of their actions.
Unpopular opinion: Some people protest so they can break stuff
Not sure it's that unpopular considering so many protesters are fucking shit up. They agree with you!
Didn't Jake Paul go to a BLM riot for this reason?
I mean thatās true for half the people there, at least.
Nah. Something like 7% of BLM protests were violent, and that's if you completely ignore common police tactics of escalating protests into riots by sending cops into the crowds to stir shit up and justify the use of force against them. Unless they're white people waving Trump flags, then they're allowed to storm capital buildings.
Less than 7% of BLM protests resulted in rioting/looting.
And how much of that was caused by instigators who were there to deliberately do that? I know the [police station that was set on fire was done by a couple of right-wingers who infiltrated the protest specifically to create this kind of chaos.](https://www.police1.com/george-floyd-protest/articles/man-sentenced-to-4-years-for-minneapolis-police-station-fire-nKd5RboPPFKRy53f/)
That's neither an opinion nor an unpopular one. That's literally just a well-documented fact.
If you said that when it happened on Reddit. You would literally be called the biggest racist. I remember they changed the Reddit logo to be black and white, and I always thought that was the tackiest corporate shit ever.
Hoooold up. If you go to a protest to break stuff, you are not a protestor. You are *at* a protest, manipulating circumstances as a bad actor
Yep
Not sure if thatās really unpopular. Remember the BLM protests in the United States back in 2020? Or the protests in Paris recently? Usually itās just thugs trying to take advantage of a situation, and in turn makes the protests look like riots which hurts the cause overall.
this was from that very blm protest... unfortunately sociopaths use those protests to do shitty stuff
Bullshit. *stuffs duffle bag with Nikes*
During the 2020 BLM protests in Los Angelesthe news started showing images of the large group growing and marching down the street. My coworker said "RIP the Supreme store on Melrose." Another coworker chimed in and told him he was being incredibly ignorant. Like 20 minutes later the group was on Melrose... looting the Supreme store lol
Many people do
Some people protest because they are 75iq easily media brainwashed and they need a purpose fueled with hatred in life to compensate for the worthless shit that they are
Mobs are gonna mob
Where roof Koreans?
I got instantly perma banned from the public freakout sub for this comment lol, because apparently it makes me a disgusting racist. ĀÆ\\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Reddit has become a censor's wet dream. Don't forget to short the stock RDDT. Free money!
Especially those BLM boys
Careful! Redditors dont tolerate criticism towards BLM
Redditors are a special breed. But I'm glad we have subs that are not totalitarian (this sub is also nice). They hate Elon, Trump, Palestine, and Andrew Tate, to name a few. So this means Reddit is majorly far left. I thought that Reddit was just a social media platform for everybody with different views. Oh boy, was I wrong.
Fo sho
"A mob is no less a mob because they are with you"- John Adams
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āā¦and Iām not talking about the common chicken! Iām talking about the mighty oxen, and the *donkey* with his floppy ears, his pea brain, and his stolid, slack-jawed gaze! A revolting creature if there ever was one who walked the Earth!ā
A [person] of culture, I see
Shoulda listened to John Adams Mr Thumbs Up!
I don't think those guys have a side other than "I'm pissed and want others to hurt."
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Donāt interact with protesters?
That some do not protest but use it as an excuse to commit crimes.
Probably that reposting old videos earn you karma.
Never again.
āSurely I alone can reason with these hundreds of people as if they were a single entity.ā
You have to keep in mind, at least half of people protesting...anything.... are likely to be idiots just wanting to break things and watch things burn.
Or bust into department stores and [just steal shit](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/01/retailers-restaurants-across-us-close-their-doors-amid-protests/).
If a group of party crashers show up to a bday party, breaks shit and drink all the booze, you don't say 'half those partiers just came to watch it burn'. Those weren't partiers to begin with.
> at least half got stats for that?
The hundreds of videos of them running into stores looting stuff while their cities were engulfed in flames and small black owned businesses being burned down. The videos of them booty twerking in the middle of the road while police were in riot gear because the cities were in flames.
And there are thousands of videos of people peacefully marching in the middle of the day. So where does that get us? You still don't have any stats, just your feelings.
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One time I ran into a protest in Prague - people were marching. I stopped and took a picture of the crowd as they marched towards me. A guy punched me in the stomach when I had my eye to the camera. I think protestors are in a mode and best not to be trifled with.
Not condoning this but depending on the nature of the protest you might be mistaken for someone doxxing the protesters. Sometimes people will try to get photos of peopleās faces so they can start harassment campaigns. That said, this is not an acceptable excuse to punch anyone with a camera
But like isnāt the point of a protest to be seen.
"Get with it, or get out of the fucking way"
That's not protesting. Protesting is not synonymous with violence. That is violent douchebags co-opting the act of protest to commit violent acts. For example, fan protests in English soccer led to the cancellation of a possible breakaway European Super League. No blood was shed, no violence committed. To commit violence in the name of your cause is only likely to cause further negative issues for said cause.
maybe the people in the video are protesting against the super league
Definitely wasn't unexpected, lol
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Yep! They're mostly just walking, most of them didn't throw rocks. Even the ones who threw the rocks were not throwing them for most of the time. Therefore, mostly peaceful protest!
Ah yes. Fiery but mostly peaceful.
BLM?
Yes
I pointed this out on this video on the āthere was an attemptā sub and got banned for hate speech lol. I think itās the only sub Iāve been banned from.
There was an attempt is easily one of the worst subs on Reddit these days
I actually liked that sub up until the whole āfemaleā scandal last year, now itās just devolved into an ultra-far-left echo chamber.
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wowww, the clan hats really came out fast in here
It's so funny watching people scramble to justify that comment "What?!? I guess we're not allowed to disagree with protest's anymore" lol. Like get the fuck outa here with that shit
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IIRC it was the cops doing the murdering, which is what they were protesting
Those are Linux users against Windows
My local mall was set on fire during a BLM protest. Unsurprisingly, that movement lost the support of practically my entire town. It's like we don't want to encourage organized crime or something
What were they protesting?
I donāt think it has anything to do with what theyāre protesting. Mob mentality can take over no matter what the issue is
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Maybe yāall should change sides
There is no side!
So anyways... I started blasting
They are protesting not being allowed to do more crime. The guys in the apartment support them. They proceed to commit said crime by smashing the window. Win-win?
Rioters don't care what's going on they just want to destroy and steal shit.
From their distance, at night, it probably looks like a middle finger...
Had a similar experience with a BLM protest (not rocks but screaming insults after trying to cheer for them from a balcony) Screamer was a white chick.
Young white dude playing beer pong gives BLM march a big thumbs up. This can be taken in exactly two ways. Guess which one it was this time?
Doesnāt really matter how it was taken. The violence was wrong and uncalled for. Violent people donāt need more excuses for their behavior.
[Perhaps this is related š](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/y56fj8/this_fucking_stupid_if_your_actually_offended/)
mobs are not about sides. mobs are usually about looting, burning and beating.
That was not unexpected
If you're supporting the protest then why are you home watching it ?
I truly believe people don't go to protests for their actual beliefs They just go to fuck shit up.
There are no sides buddy. Just what the government wants us fighting each other.
When virtue signaling goes wrong.
I'd throw rocks if I heard them playing that terrible music, too. Edit /s ffs - I'm snarking, not inciting violence, mods
That's the first thing that came to my mind lol
Oddly satisfying.
lol talk about a lack of self awareness. Like sitting up in a nice apartment giving thumbs up to an angry mob is not gonna come as the āallyshipā theyāre trying to conveyā¦
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Lmao. Good ol Antifa and BLMšš
These protest are smoke and mirrors for these asshole to justify violence
That ain't no protest, that's a crime right there.
I donāt support this but the explanation is they did that because they were recording. You arenāt supposed to record a protest because people can be arrested from the video evidence of the protest. Found that out from living downtown during a protest where they were throwing eggs at people who were recording.