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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho are these people that are tearing down a monument of a Union soldier?
Are they on our side? This is not a good look. What's next? Tearing down a Hank Aaron monument? C'mon people-don't give Trump stuff to rail about.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)Giving Trump something to rail against IS the goal of this nonsense.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Utterly silly is the most generous judgment.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,407 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,407 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)of statement. Beating up a politician, a Democratic state senator, seems to be a political statement of some sort.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,407 posts)"other side" might see/use them?
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)County, city and town councils across the country are removing or looking at removing offensive statues, going to council meetings and voicing an opinion works better than mob violence. Also, mob violence can be cooped by people that have zero interest in the social justice positions that underlay our issues with some statues.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)Until you know who they are, it's probably best not to speculate about what their motivations and intentions are.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)How many were arrested? There's got to be video. Very strange.
sarisataka
(18,755 posts)The morning after day-long protests turned violent, ending in property damage, two landmark statues being toppled, and an alleged attack on a state senator, a spokesperson who said she represented a united front of organizers and activists for black liberation issued a series of demands.
The spokesperson, Ebony Anderson-Carter, said she was speaking on behalf of multiple groups. In her statement, she said they were demanding the release of the man whose arrest Tuesday afternoon triggered the protests. The groups also demanded a Madison Police Department officer be fired and that the department itself be defunded and the money be reallocated to the community.
The Madison Police Department serves and protects profit not people because they would have protected us when we were being hit out here and not being violent, she said.
Anderson-Carter went on to describe the groups efforts as a revolutionary fight for human rights on behalf of all oppressed people.
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)And craft better messages.
Because what I heard was nonsense.
It's getting harder to defend this bs to the middle.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)A man walking through a restaurant with a baseball bat and a bull-horn stating he was disrupting the place ought to be arrested.
These people are what is left on the flats when the tide runs out, and that is about all. The crowds of people protesting legitimate grievances no longer give them cover, so they can be seen in their true light.
JHB
(37,161 posts)The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)"Free to all finders, birds, beasts, Elves or Men, and all kindly creatures."
Crunchy Frog
(26,629 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)A righteous grievance has been coopted by extremists who have no interests in peaceful resolution of differences.
Any person that is walking around property with a baseball bat needs to be arrested. Some of the same people who go apeshit when a righty is walking around private property with an AR-15 are ok with a person doing the same with a baseball bat, it is utter nonsense.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)and will rally under any banner that gives than an excuse to do so
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)There is always going to be an anti-social element involved that want nothing but chaos, and when they get the chance, they bring that about.
bottomofthehill
(8,344 posts)No cause necessary
MichMan
(11,961 posts)other than some old white guy on a horse. They see news clips of others doing it and just want to vandalize something themselves.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)onethatcares
(16,179 posts)nt