Comment by philwelch
6 years ago
> First that you take some time to actually listen to the protestors and their complaints.
I have. Please examine your assumption that I haven't.
However, I'm not the one conflating the protesters with the people committing violent acts. The evidence I've seen appears to indicate that most of the violence has not been carried out by protesters, but rather from a variety of extremists who are trying to exploit their cause. I've seen groups of protesters forming perimeters to guard riot police who got separated from their formations, or seizing vandals and instigators and physically shoving them into the police lines so they can be removed from an otherwise peaceful protest.
Maybe you didn't know that. Maybe you thought the rioting and violence was all at the hands of BLM protesters. You definitely didn't seem to know the history of demonstrators openly carrying rifles. But that all leaves you in a very poor position to be misrepresenting my own statements to me directly and asking me to educate myself about things I'm better informed on than you seem to be.
I know literally every thing you've stated. The question I'm asking is not whether we know those things, but if you honestly believe, after having read Tom Cotton's op Ed, that his preference is for the national guard to go in and work with protestors to help control violent groups, or if instead his goal was to quell legitimate protests.
> I know literally every thing you've stated.
You are repeatedly asserting the opposite: that "riots are the language of the unheard" (rather than, rioters are bad actors using otherwise legitimate protests as cover), that open-carry protests are something only white people do, and so forth.
> The question I'm asking is not whether we know those things, but if you honestly believe, after having read Tom Cotton's op Ed, that his preference is for the national guard to go in and work with protestors to help control violent groups, or if instead his goal was to quell legitimate protests.
Neither.