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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Walk_On@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

[I originally posted this in chapotraphouse, but it was deleted for being “pro-cop” even though that very much wasn’t the case. (I believe PSL was actually involved in organizing the protest if I’m not mistaken.) The mod that deleted it openly broke the sectarian rule too.]

Been seeing a lot of people hating on what the protest marshals did during the pro-Gaza protests at the DNC and I feel they definitely did the right thing. Instigating stuff like going up against the cops under the guise of “revolutionary” action just gets a lot of people arrested and doesn’t accomplish anything.

EDIT: Users who were present at the protests have said, counter to what is claimed in the screenshot, that the protest marshals did NOT call for the police. Thank you for clearing this up, comrades!

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[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

i listened to Democracy Now's coverage of the protest, and they also played recordings of the 1968 anti-Vietnam war protests and the contrast was shocking. I don't know what it is but something in the culture shifted in the last 50 years like there's this dominant anxious affect where we have thousands of kids on the internet getting "radicalized" in their politics but the idea of actually doing something, anything is just too nasty and crass and weird

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

1968 is honestly what I was expecting this to be like. That’s why I feel so deflated.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

1968 was a police riot, so I'm not disappointed it didn't happen this time around

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