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Author Topic:   The Disgusting Berkeley Riots
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Message 72 of 275 (798905)
02-06-2017 12:04 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by Coyote
02-02-2017 8:59 PM


Coyote writes:
The goal is to shut down any and all opposition through street violence.
OMG!!! Just look at those violent protesters!!!!!
If you can't see the street violence being a prime weapon on the part of the progs, you need better glasses.
The prime weapon is peaceful protest. Always has been.

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Message 73 of 275 (798909)
02-06-2017 12:22 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Faith
02-03-2017 9:34 AM


Re: Riots are bad (but it depends on who's rioting).
Faith writes:
Perhaps you could venture a thought about how so many of the anti-Trump "protests" have in fact become violent?
You first have to demonstrate how many anti-Trump protestors have committed violence.
Such a strange opinion suggests that "some" people really don't deserve free speech? Such as people who disagree with the darling opinions of the Left?
Conservatives have a strange knack for confusing freedom of speech with freedom from criticism. When someone on the right is criticized they act as if their freedom of speech has been violated. This isn't the case.
Violent attacks intended to silence a political opinion are a "low level" action that shouldn't be compared to the Nazis, cuz why? Again it's a rather apt comparison it seems to me. Perhaps you have another word for it? How about Stalinism? Maoism?
What we are seeing is conservatives focusing on rare violent events as a means of silencing a largely peaceful protest.

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