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[–] Someboynumber5reborn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even peaceful protesters like MLK said that "riots are the voice of the unheard"

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but assholes can riot too. Assholes can be unheard. One needs to listen to what a group is demanding and ask if their demands are for justice or for injustice. Sometimes a race riot is against racism, sometimes it’s against racialized people doing well in a racist society. Jan 6 was a riot. They felt unheard and made demands and used violence to get them. That’s bad. Stonewall was a bunch of people who felt unheard, made demands, and used violence to get them. That was good. The difference is that society was right for listening to the votes instead of conspiracy theories and society was wrong for sending cops to arrest gay people.