• MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml
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    30 days ago

    Again with another poorly thought out opinion that does not logically connect your message with any real measure of virtue. Here you’re excusing the conduct of people who would block traffic by chalking it all up to countering the white moderate preferring an absence of tension, which is not a logical conclusion whatsoever as it could be similarly used to argue for hanging racists in the street. It’s ignoring the severity of the impact of the protest to break it down into a binary of support/nonsupport. “Either you’re with us or you’re against us.” is the mantra of forced conformity of thought. Seriously, do better.

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      29 days ago

      Nah. Its you that needs to do better. No protest needs to apologize for inconveniencing you.

      Your hand wringing is precisely what MLK was talking about.

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        27 days ago

        No, it wasn’t…because he was talking about people who didn’t want to see black folks rise up at all if it meant disruption. I would be thrilled to see Gazans gain equality, their own state and be just fine with protestors disrupting the people who could actually affect those changes. Protesting by blocking regular folk from getting anywhere is rock bottom stupid because they don’t have any power to make the change…it’s taking their frustration out at the situation out on innocent people. Instead of speaking truth to power, it’s inflicting their will on the powerless. If you can’t tell right from wrong, that’s a you problem.

        If you think MLK would have been all for trapping regular civilians on the US freeways for a war in another continent though, you’re a complete and utter moron.

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      29 days ago

      “severity of impact” – a few hundred people made slightly late to things vs. tens of thousands of civilian deaths. How do you type this without pausing to consider how absolutely monstrous you’re being?

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        27 days ago

        How do you type this without pausing to consider how absurdly hyperbolic you’re being? I don’t support Israel in its war against Gaza whatsoever, I was thrilled to see the war crimes charges against Netanyahu and public sentiment turning against the conditions there but if I don’t support freeway blocking protests in another continent that don’t even attempt to separate out those that support the war, I’m being “absolutely monstrous?” How could anyone be expected to take you seriously here when you exaggerate THAT badly?

        Edit: Oh, and “Few hundred people made slightly late”

        Gonna stop you right there. You have no idea how many cars get backed up for how long, who has drinking water, working Air Conditioning, emergencies to get to, whether or not someone died in an ambulance stuck in traffic. You’re making up the rosiest scenario, pretending this isn’t dangerous and life threatening, and then pretending that’s the reality as if you could know. It’s wildly dishonest.

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      29 days ago

      You write dumb shit like you’re trying to hit a word count.

      “excusing the conduct of people who would” literally delete this entire cringe flourish and you lose zero meaning. In fact you lose redundancy wHerEiN you first refer to what they’re doing and then just say what they’re doing in the same sentence. Sophomoric.

      It’s ignoring the severity of the impact of the protest to break it down into a binary of support/nonsupport.

      So high off your 8th grade writing level that you don’t even bother building your sentences around coherent thoughts.

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        27 days ago

        You write dumb shit like you’re trying to hit a word count.

        I’ve read what you wrote and am firmly in the position of looking down on you due to your poorly thought out and immature views. No amount of writing skill is going to cover up your overall lack of intelligence, and you haven’t demonstrated any writing skill either. You can convince yourself I’m writing dumb shit just because you disagree with it. I don’t care…I just know better.

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          27 days ago

          With true fidelity to my criticism you bore everyone with excessively verbose drivel that contributed nothing