“Violent protest is not protected; peaceful protest is. ... Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes ... none of this is peaceful protest.”
— President Biden condemns many campus demonstrations.
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@tyleroakley
be peaceful, be violent -- they're going to beat, arrest, and ignore you either way.
ESCALATION is the only way forward.
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@tyleroakley
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@tyleroakley
In that clip, Biden did not characterize the protests as violent. Some violence did occur in some places and he was speaking about that to try to prevent more of it. I would think we would all want a President to do that.
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@tyleroakley
An inconvenient truth for those who would have us believe that peaceful protest against our government’s and institution’s complicity in war crimes is the “real” violence.
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@tyleroakley
When they send the riot police and State troopers, it’s on purpose. They want to make those encampments seem “violent” and “threatening”. It’s all part of the media fear-mongering campaign to scare American viewers so they won’t question for a second what they are protesting.
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@tyleroakley
He talked for longer about the right to protest. You just cherry pick the one about not being violent! He did not characterize these protests as violent.
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@BreeNewsome
Then condemn the attackers not the peaceful protest. Neither side should be moved to the point of physical violence.
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@tyleroakley
It's "violent" because Zionists, who have co-opted anti-semitism to mean anything that criticizes Israel in any way, are getting their feelings hurt. There's a difference between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism, know it, learn it, and understand it
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