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In reply to the discussion: Protesters target D.C. diners, triggering backlash after heckling woman [View all]BumRushDaShow
(165,633 posts)8. I never thought I'd see the day
when I'd see a whole pile of white kids yelling "No justice, no peace" and heckling another white person.
But what the media narrative will become is that what you see before your eyes are not white kids but are actually "violent black thug protesters" heckling an innocent white person (despite the tweeted video that shows an all-white group doing white-on-white harassment), so that they can say - "See what these (imaginary black) 'protesters' do?".
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Fredrick Kunkle WaPo
@KunkleFredrick
1) In a scene that played out several times Monday, a Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights confronted White diners outside D.C. restaurants, chanting White silence is violence! and demanding White diners show their solidarity. #DCProtests
3:39 PM · Aug 25, 2020 from Washington, DC
@KunkleFredrick
1) In a scene that played out several times Monday, a Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights confronted White diners outside D.C. restaurants, chanting White silence is violence! and demanding White diners show their solidarity. #DCProtests
3:39 PM · Aug 25, 2020 from Washington, DC
ETA - as you can see by the above WaPo reporter tweet, he has already "defined" what you are to see "Black Lives Matter protest" (meaning black people) "confronted White diners", as if you have black people confronting a white diner rather than saying "WHITE Black Lives Matters protesters confronting a WHITE diner". This is the very manifestation of "institutionalized racism" within the media and their point of view of what they claim to be "seeing".
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Protesters target D.C. diners, triggering backlash after heckling woman [View all]
brooklynite
Aug 2020
OP
It is self-destructive behavior, and there is no doubt that trump and the republicans will use this
still_one
Aug 2020
#1
If provocateurs are not yet involved in this stupidity, they are at least a little embarrassed that
Atticus
Aug 2020
#2
Probably. The Washington Post followed this group of protesters and it doesn't appear they
still_one
Aug 2020
#4
Exactly. Hopefully they will have learned something from this, and realize that this kind
still_one
Aug 2020
#5
Wow, you have a GOOD eye! Thats exactly what it is. I would've never noticed it at all
oldsoftie
Aug 2020
#21
If put in that situation I'm not sure they would like the gesture I made with my raised fist
ripcord
Aug 2020
#32
AS A WHITE PERSON, if I was being harrassed by what seemed to be a white person I would certainly
Kashkakat v.2.0
Aug 2020
#34
In the situation shown in the video, your attempt to present a calm, rational argument would simply
Dial H For Hero
Aug 2020
#35
Hours after March on Washington, protesters scattered throughout city, blocking roads and yelling
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2020
#44