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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by metabagel on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:18PM (#25694427)
Considering the sheer number of protests and protesters involved, BLM protests were mostly peaceful.

https://today.uconn.edu/2020/10/study-2020-protests-shows-di...

"While the summer of 2020 experienced 100 days of violence and destruction in cities, according to the the U.S Department of Homeland Security, the most recent CCC study of 7,305 separate events in May and June suggests that 96.3% of events involved no property damage or police injuries and 97.7% of events had no injuries reported. Pressman spoke with UConn Today about the new report."

In contrast, the attack on the capital building was a deliberately violent attack on the seat of our national government. Rioters brought zip ties to potentially hold lawmakers hostage, blunt force weapons, and firearms. It was inherently a violent undertaking with revolutionary aims.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by jdminhbg on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:08PM (#25696785)
> Considering the sheer number of protests and protesters involved, BLM protests were mostly peaceful.

This is a pretty terrible standard, since MAGA rallies are mostly peaceful as well. The issue is what do we do with the ones that aren't, not how many of them are.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by j2bax on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:53AM (#25697748)
I think the comparison was BLM protests to this “protest”, not all MAGA rally’s.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by leetcrew on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:57PM (#25702612)
which is sort of silly. the source cited higher up is counting how many separate BLM events involved police injuries and/or property damage. how does it make sense to compare that figure to a single event? with a sample of one, it can only be 100% or 0% by that methodology.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by southeastern on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:23AM (#25698314)
But this wasn't a rally. This was literally them storming the halls of Congress to take back their country from what they believe are corrupt communist deep state agents. Why do they believe that? Because their leader Trump has been amplifying this type of conspiratorial misinformation on Twitter for the past 4 years
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by notSupplied on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:56PM (#25702609)
The “the percent of protests that are peaceful” largely depends on what you decide to include in that category.

Suppose the peaceful portion of BLM protests didn’t happen, would the violent riots go from being justified to unjust? Why would the presence of the peaceful protests change our moral assessment of the violent ones? Same with the MAGA demonstrations. It should not matter that there were numerous other peaceful MAGA rallies when assessing the storming on the capital.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by alsetmusic on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:30PM (#25696340)
People brought firearms to BLM events, too. Whether they brought them before or after riots broke out is unknowable. I support BLM and not rioters, fwiw.

What makes this unique is that there are records online of people planning violence in advance.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by AuryGlenz on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:21PM (#25696168)
And that was a small fraction of the people who were there to protest, so they were mostly peaceful as well.

Certainly most of the large BLM protests ended in destruction and violence, at least in my state of Minnesota. There’s a reason the national guard had to be deployed. People find strength in numbers.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by j2bax on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:56AM (#25697765)
I like how you respond to a thoughtful post with statistical data with your own conjecture.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by AuryGlenz on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:09AM (#25698220)
That statistical data is pretty bunk. What constitutes an 'event?' It seems that they cast a pretty broad net if they came up with thousands of them. There was a protest in my town with all of 30 people in attendance - does that count? For several nights in a row I tuned in to the news in my state to watch straight up riots in Minneapolis.

It's clear from the pictures of what happened in the capitol that it was done by a tiny fraction of people from the protests, so you don't need any statistical analysis for that.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:41PM (#25695710)
It usually only takes one to change public perception. And DC was a sample of one. OTOH, BLM has media covering for them(1) to make the group look peaceful.

1. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cnn+fiery+but+mostly+peaceful&iax=...

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by ARandomerDude on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:20AM (#25697922)
If you murder every 100th day, are you 99% peaceful?
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by kenjackson on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:52AM (#25698117)
99% of days you are.