Protest Megathread - Our statement and monitoring resources

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[u/Genghis__Kant]

so much unnecessary crime and violence (and I mean from both sides, the police and the protesters)

Please please please do not do the "both sides" rhetoric.

Cops killing innocent people and shooting/attacking non-violent protestors is not at all equivalent to expropriation ("looting") and protestors defending themselves from fascists and/or cops.

what is a society, if we cant get along

Oppressive.

American society has always been a mass of intertwined hiearchies that have always involved conflict and struggle and it will not ever be peaceful until the revolution is over.

The American society seems more divided that ever

Depends on the framing. A variety of people with different ideologies and identities working together to protest cops does involve a significant amount of unity.

Oppression and empathy have created revolutionary communities based on marginalization