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Offline segnosaur

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Re: Trucker convoy (non-censor edition)
« Reply #510 on: February 08, 2022, 09:35:10 pm »
Let me end this thread so we can all just STFU:

- Everyone has the right to peacefully protest (speech)
- Protestors should follow the law or face the consequences, whether truckers or BLM'ers or Jan 6'ers
- Governments should allow people to protest indefinitely unless they're breaking the law, in which case they have the right to enforce the law on those breaking it while leaving all other peaceful protestors alone.
- Protestors should not engage in hate speech or incite violence
- A minority of bad apples within a peaceful protest movement, whether Nazis or looting BLM'ers, do not represent all the members of that protest and do not in themselves de-legitimize a protest
Ah yes, its always "just a few" bad apples...

Just a few racists organized it. Just a few carried racist flags. Just a few peed on the war memorial. Just a few danced on the tomb of the unknown soldier. Just a few harassed people at a medical center. Just a few sent death threats to a tow truck driver. Just a few harassed businesses. Just a few assaulted people. Just a few harassed businesses. Just a few threw rocks at people's houses. Just a few used their horns, causing noise complaints. Just a few started fires. Just a few stole food from a homeless shelter. Just a few are parked illegally and blocking traffic. Just a few built illegal structures....

Did you ever think that when you start to add up all those "just a few bad apples" you end up with a pretty substantial number of people? At one point do you think that those 'few' people are actually something to be concerned about?

And how about a new rule? If you are surrounded by people being dumbasses, and you decide to either 1) do nothing tp stop it even if doing so is fairly easy, or 2) you decide to stay, then you are giving tacit approval to those actions?

Heck, take the confederate and nazi flags... even the Trump campaign was smart enough to take down a confederate flag someone had hung in a 2016 election rally. But here you have trucker protesters gladly hanging out with people carrying racist flags.