Comment by perl4ever

5 years ago

"started out...universal"

Those two words seem to express what I think is a crucial falsehood, and it works for selective communication (dog whistling) if some people get cognitive dissonance for it and others don't. We have me as an example of the former and you as an example of the latter.

I'm not saying it's intentional, but it raises hackles for me.

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AnimalMuppet  5 years ago

I'm still not seeing it. What's the crucial falsehood? Why does it give you cognitive dissonance?

  • perl4ever  5 years ago

    Floyd was killed on Monday. According to the Wikipedia page on the protests, they began the following day, escalated to riots and burning a police station down. Chauvin was arrested on Friday.

    So it is not true that everyone agreed from the beginning as it took a week to get to the point where everyone went "oh shit this is serious".

    • AnimalMuppet  5 years ago

      I think it's fair to say that there was almost universal condemnation from day one, from just about everyone except the Minneapolis city government. And so the protests started out as a demand for justice from Minneapolis. They later transformed into a wider protest against police violence generally.

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