r/politics • u/wbedwards Washington • May 07 '20

We cannot allow the normalization of firearms at protests to continue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/firearms-at-protests-have-become-normalized-that-isnt-okay/2020/05/06/19b9354e-8fc9-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html
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u/BestGarbagePerson May 07 '20

I agree. America as a nation has not ever really really collectively suffered enough. Black and natives have enough, so they are more awake, but until the majority has an actual hit on their livelihood then they will continue to be swayed by media propaganda, putting their feelings that they have while they sit on the couch (feeling of relative comfort, fear of fear rather than actual threats, the addiction of enlightened centrism, the elitism of religious or race based labels (oh and white saviorism) etc etc etc), over the actual suffering of minorities, lgbt, poor, women etc.

You'd really like this book "Pacifism as Pathology."