2020 Protests megathread

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Give it two days.

People will be sick of the media coverage, and the Police/National Guard will have better control.

These situations don't achieve the outcome people desire if they loot and burn.

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Just a slice of how this all looks to the world:

To be fair, the media really needs to stop putting their employees in dangerous situations and get them to stand farther back (several city blocks) for their own safety.

Exactly. 10/10.

You think CNN and FOXNews are stupid. Channel 7 from Australia are deliberately sending in media to the protests for one simple reason. To get ratings.

Now you can see what the Australian media are like. Mostly supermodels with an IQ of 40. Channel 9 will start doing it now. We call it "infotainment". It's not news.

Most of the news was about that. Not about the incident. Not about the riots. But media about media stunts gone wrong. I turned it off straight away.

The media has distorted this out of control on both sides.

Polk County Sherriff discusses the issue of community safety:

https://youtu.be/kQF2SFz0A0I

The media only broadcasts the most extreme situations so people need to filter that through when watching the news.

This is why I like PBS Newshour. Much more realistic view of the world.

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Many small businesses are already struggling due to the covid19 lockdown and the economy being paused. I work as an accountant at a bank in Worcester county, MA, we've had many business owners asking for loans and advice in how to maintain their businesses, many were on the brink.

As a small business owner, I don't think many of the protesters have a clue how thin the line is when running a successful business. Many think it us just a bucket of endless cash from which the business owners can put their hand in. But it is actually a balancing act, and these events will tip the business off its axis.

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I wouldn't kill people over a business, but.......

You're not from Idaho then.

Coeur d'Alene

https://youtu.be/0kUDGfSOrQQ

Such a sweet feminine soft French name.

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Three Police shot and stabbed in New York.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-officer-shot-in-brooklyn-hours-into-new-yorks-curfew

Great protest movement. Real classy.

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In Philadelphia, a 24-y/o was apparently attempting to break into an ATM with explosives.  You can probably fill in the rest of the story. 

OK. I will.

https://youtu.be/7fnwWWHksiQ

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The Australian protests were held today.

1. It was mostly suburban white people on an Instagram crusade who would avoid Aboriginal people under any other circumstances.
2. What about African Australians? They got left out by the media.

This is just a media narrative.

I dont think the Aboriginal crime rate would sustain any reasonable analysis that would show anything other than the fact that the crime rate attributable to Australian Aboriginals is proportionally much higher than their population base.

The crime rate is out of control in outback towns. Most of it is not reported. Massive levels of alcoholism, chemical dependency, sexual and physical assaults. You have children under 12 with STD's in remote populations.

The protests might be legit in the US, i cannot say, but blaming non-whites in Australia about the same issue is barking up the wrong tree.

It's because of COVID-19 restrictions and a movement on Instagram that everyone now wants to join in and make similar protests in countries without the same issues.

The media will never show the truth about everyday life in Australia like what we really see from the drunk Aboriginal population.

https://youtu.be/ZEMiUEtpWd4

https://youtu.be/h_oK_bgs164

https://youtu.be/ymqw2czq6X0

That guy is just randomly singling out Asian people for abuse and physically assaults two Asian men on a bus because they are simply Asian.

He leaves the Indian guy alone, but goes hard against the Asian people.

You wont see that ever played on the nightly news.

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I don't know why you have to link videos about indigenous people being drunk and the media doesn't report on that like they don't report on that for every single group.

That is blatantly false. Not only will the media report the same incidents of racism if the perpetrator is white, they will ask for more detailed stories of racism to present next to keep the narrative alive:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-06/coronavirus-woman-racist-attack-in-melbourne/12216854?nw=0

As evidence of this, simply try and find one published media story of an Aboriginal person being racist towards an Asian person.

It is a corollary of a media narrative. All this change argued for the "Deaths In Custody" debate was worked on 30 years ago.

Just basic facts.

Western Australia has implemented the vast majority of the recommendations from The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) (1987–1991) in the 1990's with great success.

An Aboriginal "Death in Custody" includes person(s) who crash their vehicle whilst being pursued by Police at the time of death.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/18/hes-come-to-grief-inquest-investigates-death-of-indigenous-man-following-police-chase

This guy died at his own hand speeding in an unregistered car, and it has been counted as a "Death in Custody". Police did not know the race of the person driving the car.

56% of all Aboriginal "Deaths in Custody" are in this category.

It is clear that the current debate is based on pure emotion and romanticism associated with media saturation of the US situation.

The point is that the Australian media are blind to the actual reality of day-to-day stats whilst trying to feed us with a "George Floyd"-like story line.

95% of the protests are borne out of COVID-19 and George Floyd issues.

I am against people using these protests as an opportunity to bignote themselves on Instagram for likes. It detracts from the legacy of the individual concerned.

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Melbourne, Australia

Right wing pro-Israeli reporter Avi Yemini goes to the BLM rally with 40,000 people on the weekend to ask if anyone has heard of Justine Damond:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Justine_Damond

A white Australian woman shot in her pyjamas in Fulton, Minneapolis in 2017 by Mohamed Noor, an African-American Minneapolis Police Department officer.

This is essentially a "right meets left" argument in Australia in 2020.

https://www.facebook.com/424135517668782/posts/3120749214674052/?d=null&vh=e

Some of the people gave really good answers. Keep in mind Avi has the microphone and the edit button. So he has gone there to stir up people and there would have undoubtedly been better answers from some.

If he was not so belligerent, and listened to the answers to his questions more fully, he would have engaged more in the conversation and had more interesting content for his video.

I think he cut them off (and the videos political content) by asking the same scripted questions repeatedly and too fast before they had an opportunity to talk.

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Jacinta Price, Aboriginal Program Councillor from the heartland of the Australian outback, Alice Springs, calls BLM protestors in Australia "narcissists" following the weekends rallies:

https://www.facebook.com/57886636727/posts/10157380268571728/?d=null&vh=e

Jacinta makes strong points about what the Aboriginal people need other than protests and Instageam likes.

I don't think people in Australia such as myself are trying to discount the size of this social movement in the USA, and it may be long overdue.

It's just that people in Western Australia and the Northern Territory know that "Deaths in Custody" is not the real issue facing Aboriginal people.

Keep in mind that people from Melbourne would know about 3/5th's of f$%^ all about Aboriginal life.

She highlights one of the roadblocks to racial equality is the lack of meaningful analysis of social statistics regarding the Aboriginal population.

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the actual problem is "people are racist"

Bingo. I had this conversation with a colleague yesterday, and that was one of the points discussed.

It just really comes down to the proportion within each social group.

Human Beings are biologically and socially engineered to survive by exclusion.