01-14-2021, 02:03 PM
(01-07-2021, 01:56 PM)haveitall Wrote: 1. What happened yesterday was a disgrace. Its an embarrassment to Republicans.
2. You cannot condemn yesterdays riots on capitol hill and support the riots in Seattle, Portland, NYC etc. I heard an announcer on ESPN broadcast try to justify BLM riots in the middle of the game and turned my TV off.
3. Everyone believes their cause is important and just and it may well be, but when mobs break into violence, that's where my support ends.
1. I agree that it was a disgrace. Even beyond disgraceful really. I don't think any of us actually want to live to see a successful coup.
2. I don't like the violence at the capitol or the violence last summer, either one. Neither should be supported. But the incidents are different. Storming the capitol is definitely a different animal. And storming the capitol as the overflow of a President caused hysteria over conspiracy theories is a different animal.
Also, BLM organizes protests and violence has broken out at some or many of the protests because of the level of frustration and anger over centuries of racism. Maybe That violence isn't justified at all in my mind, but it's based on real hurt. The violence at the capital was done by folks who aren't oppressed or suffering, but who are afraid they're losing their hold and control over the country, got deceived by a con man because he spoke their language, and bought a bunch of conspiracy theories.