(06-07-2020, 12:53 PM)Last42min Wrote: 2 things:

1. There were mitigating circumstances that fundamentally make that instance different than other peaceful protests. I'm not even talking about whether or not people were throwing bottles or messing with structures as some people claim. It was just before curfew, so people needed to start clearing out anyways. Protests still continued AND continue in DC. That SPECIFIC protest was shut down so the President could get his photo op. While I think it was a stupid and unnecessary PR move, it's ridiculous to equivocate that dumb stunt with shutting down protests and  using it as an example of a widespread policy, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

2. The opening line and accusation of that post is that some posters here want all protests shut down, and they are sad to see the violence ends because it doesn't give them a reason to send people home. No one here has said that and it is an affront to civil dialogue.

Even if you want to agree with my first point (to which I don't really care to argue... it was a stupid move by the President, and I didn't agree with it), my second point stands on it's own. It's a gross mischaracterization of people here, not based in facts or reason.

My oh my I do declare that is an affront to civil dialogue and a gross mischaracterization of the fine people of this here political section! 

You regularly assert that everything that liberals suggest is part of some grand communist conspiracy to overthrow the country and that we are puppets to our diabolical antifa masterminds, yet my suggestion that some conservatives on this board do not have the purest of intentions is met with pearl-clutching of the highest order.

As I have stated before, I do believe that your intentions are in the right place, and that ultimately you want a society that is fair for all, even if I completely disagree with your way of thinking. But surely you must be able to see that the arguments you make (black culture is to blame for their hardships, not racism, and welfare is a trap to keep them in poverty) have often been, and continue to be, used by people who do not share your good intentions, and, frankly, do not care one iota about improving the lives of black people in America.

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