U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by detaro on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:01AM (#25668493)

Purely peaceful doesn't tend to make the news. There were many thousands of rallies overall, with millions of attendees. If a tiny part of those has even just a few dozen shitheads max, you both got truly "mostly peaceful" and enough unacceptably bad stuff to produce enough news reports to make people think the country is burning. Some media have attempted to quantify it later based on police reports, and from what I remember it mostly matches that model.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by syshum on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:39AM (#25669518)

The "based on police reports" is also a false narrative

They are using a % of attendee's to come up with that, so if a "protest" was attended by 1,000 and only 10 people were arrested it was billed as "mostly peaceful" even though looting, fires, etc occurred.

It is a changing of the definition of what most reasonable people would consider a "peaceful protest"

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by detaro on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:46PM (#25676251)

> They are using a % of attendee's to come up with that,

no, reporting that says "1% of rallies had X reported" is not using a percentage of attendees.

And if seen myself at protests (not in the US/at BLM, to be clear) how much damage a dozen shitheads out of a few thousand attendees sadly can cause, and I would still qualify those as mostly peaceful (as did the authorities). This is in no way an excuse for those rioting, but it is for, you know, the vast majority of peaceful attendants (who in an escalating situation quite often are forced to stay, even if they don't want to)

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