The media will have trouble spinning a narrative for this one: A protester, one of several wearing KKK hoods is attacked by a black Trump supporter at the Tucson rally.
The media will have trouble spinning a narrative for this one: A protester, one of several wearing KKK hoods is attacked by a black Trump supporter at the Tucson rally.
There is also fact and fiction. The behaviors not the labels are the truth. The fiction is what is "reported." I read recently that some non-violent protesters (yes, disruptive, vocal, active, but not violent or abusive), were blamed for inciting the violence perpetrated upon them in response. I was taught that it was a civic responsibility to protest what you find objectionable in politics.
As was I.
And that you would have to take what comes with it, regardless of anything. The next question was then do I want to be a martyr. Pick your battles. And being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Several of the victims at Kent State weren't protesters, they were just students passing through the crowd on their way to another class.
Not sure that I have a point. Just very pensive after all the things and events of the past couple of weeks.
Makes me want to ask what is the difference between a mob and a movement. It's another thin line that is dependent on who is applying the labels or not ?
There is also fact and fiction. The behaviors not the labels are the truth. The fiction is what is "reported." I read recently that some non-violent protesters (yes, disruptive, vocal, active, but not violent or abusive), were blamed for inciting the violence perpetrated upon them in response. I was taught that it was a civic responsibility to protest what you find objectionable in politics.
Stepping back a bit, this is the problem with a tolerant person in general. We see it in a microcosm in Berkeley in People's Park: the tolerant person wants a place where we can be free and accept everyone. (A great idea) Into that space come the grifters and the crazies and the mean - and they overwhelm the person who is trying to be nice and tolerant. To exclude them is to be intolerant, and they don't want that. So they either 1) lose their space to the people who have come in to take advantage of the situation 2) begin to become what they didn't want: rigid, rule-driven, and exclusionary.
So what happens to America? Tolerance breeds corruption, because not everyone can make it playing by the rules. So, they make a living by breaking the rules. And the folks who are silly enough to follow the rules get screwed over.
A parallel is Christianity, which tells you that you should deny yourself the pleasures of today (sex, riches) and store them up in heaven. That's how you become great. But the alternate philosophy is that the great man is the one that is strongest, smartest, and takes what he wants. If life is short, then why would you not simply take the things that make it good?
Good thoughts.
Makes me want to ask what is the difference between a mob and a movement. It's another thin line that is dependent on who is applying the labels or not ?
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