Seems like very few have the capabilities to dislike multiple behaviours... very odd. It's easy to condemn multiple actions.
Seems like very few have the capabilities to dislike multiple behaviours... very odd. It's easy to condemn multiple actions.
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"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
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"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
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Seriously? These riots are only natural responses of oppressed people. You should be less 'disappointed' in the lack of change by the oppressed, and more outraged by the lack of action taken against these atrocities of the authorities that are responsible for this.
Look at time stamps and compare that to when cops started tear gassing and retaliating against protesters. Everything I've seen puts all of that at AFTER cops started.
I already gave you an example in my post... weed policy. INB4 "Well that's not as important as this issue!" that isn't what you asked.
"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
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"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
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No, I'm talking about the legality of it. It is legal in a lot of states now and will continue to expand until it's federally legal. Is that not progress from where it was previously illegal? Did it not happen without tons of major violent protests and riots? I'm on your side for this specific case, but your supposition that progress only happens with extreme reaction is not something I agree with.
The answer: no.
All of the violence and suffering related to marijuana is there in the War on Drugs and the penal system. The reason you seem to think it to be some example of a 'perfect protest' is primarily because the victims of said violence and suffering were and still are overwhelmingly...you know...black.
Now, while we're here... Let's have a chat about White Fragility. Citations in the link.
A phenomenon on very clear display in this thread. You have possibly one of the clearest cut instances of police brutality and even then you still have people clutching pearls, weeping, getting outraged at everything besides the actual incident in question - because doing so would have to force them to come to terms with their own internalized prejudices. White fragility is just the unfortunate public result of that internal dissonance.White defensiveness is a social phenomenon. It has been analyzed in academia and described in media as a distinct range of expressions by some white people in a number of historical settings, and up to modern times. It concerns the observable responses to academic or societal examination of structural racism in the Western world, which as the culturally and numerically dominant racial group of, white people can be prone to manifesting. The phenomenon, which has also been described interchangeably as white fragility, can find expression in silence or shutting down, denial, accusations of reverse racism, as well as upset, anger or rage at an interpersonal level. The latter individualistic form of response is not, however, to be confused with the phenomenon of white backlash or white rage, which is the exclusionary and sometimes violent group reaction by some whites to the societal progression of people of color.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi