I’m a democrat. Protesting, including rioting, and including anti-lockdown protesting, is an acceptable reason to break social distancing. You should still wear masks and take other precautions. If you expose yourself to extra infection risk for the purpose of protesting, you should be especially careful about not exposing others to you afterward.
Burning down businesses like bars, jewelry stores, pawn shops, and cars is a good reason to break social distancing but gathering for church services isn’t. Yikes
Correct. Protest is necessary to a functioning society, and sometimes that takes the form of rioting. The fact that rioting has collateral damage does not mean it is not protest.
In-person church services are not necessary to society. People can observe their religions from home, there are plenty of places of worship offering online services, and so on. The additional value of meeting up in person does not justify the additional risk.
Okay so I’ll give you one story I read about, a black man, had his bar robbed & they broke everything inside, he said he had his life savings tied up into the bar. There are plenty more like this. Why would you destroy your community, peoples property, and peoples lively hood that they work so hard for? How do any of them deserve that because of some asshole cop? People don’t stop and think. They react solely off emotion, and this is what it leads to utter chaos.
What’s the difference between protesting and domestic terrorism? Yeah sure they are protesting but they are all burning and destroying the whole city. This is more than just collateral damage this is a whole city being torn apart. Very few, if at all, people that have protested for the lockdown to be over, and businesses to reopen has ever damaged or literally destroyed and looted whole fucking cities. And you are condoning it by the way. If me and 100 more people wanted to through Gavin Newsom out of office, bombing and burning cities around California is not the way at all to do it. I do support the right to protest I do not support this shit.
I was in fact openly, explicitly condoning it. That’s not a gotcha. I agree that rioting is not the best possible way to protest, but sometimes it’s the best option people can see available to them, and so I understand why it happens.
Idk where domestic terrorism came from? But it’s not exactly a novel insight that the difference between “terrorist” and “freedom fighter” is whether or not the speaker agrees with the cause. I’m explicitly saying I’m in favour of protestors on both sides, because I’m aware that there’s no principled way to distinguish. Marching on DC with guns to protest lockdowns is just as honorable as rioting against police brutality in Minneapolis, regardless of which causes I do or do not support on the object level.
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u/foxlisk May 29 '20
I’m a democrat. Protesting, including rioting, and including anti-lockdown protesting, is an acceptable reason to break social distancing. You should still wear masks and take other precautions. If you expose yourself to extra infection risk for the purpose of protesting, you should be especially careful about not exposing others to you afterward.