What is "peaceful" protesting?

[D34DL1N3R]

What do you consider peaceful and non peaceful protesting?

How about this small incident for starters? Peaceful or not peaceful? I believe it was peaceful until the social worker jumped in and started running her mouth. My own personal opinion of this single incidence is that It was even peaceful in the beginning right when she got there and was asking the lady if she was ok, if she wanted to talk, if she could sit next to her, etc. But then she started getting loud, rude, obnoxious, telling everyone to fuck off and how horrible every one is, blah blah blah blah blah. Once she got going she wouldn't shut her mouth. Should have absolutely been arrested for being a public nuisance. She even threatened violence towards the officers who were all doing nothing but standing there. Not a single time during the entire video did I see the police or the EMTs make a single wrong move. The murder of George Floyd was absolutely wrong in every way and I am glad that prick was found guilty on all three accounts, however... imo protesting in this manner (or worse, this is only 2 people blocking a street with one of them acting like a crazy lunatic) does NOTHING for the cause. NOTHING. By watching the video does it seem like ANYone. Including the rest of the black people, are even REMOTELY empathetic to her cause? it's causing more harm than good.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bla...iral-power-of-black-sisterhood-174904227.html

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Guess non of the super far lefties can come up with any good justification for shitty protesting behavior. Thought maybe one of you would want to try reversing the damage they've caused themselves in my mind. I'm absolutely 100% still a Dem, but my views on this matter alone drastically changed after first hand personal experiences with it.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Non-violent protesting, including no destruction of property

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Non-violent protesting, including no destruction of property

Right, naturally. But how about the example I gave in the video? Did you watch it? Do you feel that it is an example of peaceful protesting, or not? There was no destruction of property and no one was physically harmed, but would you consider it peaceful, or right for her to act in the manner she did? I understand tensions are extremely high, but was it peaceful protesting, or nah?

 

[Taleweaver]

Is there a proxy of the video anywhere else? I can read the entire article (which doesn't reflect anything in the OP), but the video isn't available in my region.

I'm inclined to say it's non - violent protest, but I'll concede its not a fair discussion without having to have seen the actual video.

 

[AncientBoi]

me saying: I protest your question.


Answered. 350 xp points

 

[chrisrlink]

well the 1960's had some peaceful sit ins until racist cops came along dragging out blacks from diners beating them (sounds familiar) things did change desegragation Jim crow other civil rights victories now not saying the protesters are all good but if a cop was beating me for no reason other than peacful protest i'd fight back despite me breaking the law at that point,also if the press on camera identify's themselves and still get arrested we have problems stemming from our bill of rights even wonder if they (the police) target press like CNN and even leave fox news alone good experiment to try there imo

 

[Xzi]

I mean there's physical assault and then there's verbal assault. I wouldn't say that one Karen among the protestors acting like a Karen is enough to deem the whole event "violent" by any means. But any protest that gains enough momentum attracts agitators, both left-wing and right-wing, or sometimes even apolitical individuals. People who don't actually care about the subject of the protest, and only want to take advantage of the situation to destroy property or loot businesses.

 

[smf]

Yeah, the woman sitting in the road is pretty peaceful. I'm sure the police have been told to fuck off before, they should be able to cope with that. Peaceful protesting has nothing to do with being quiet or invisible.

If she was throwing something at them then it wouldn't be peaceful, but it's not like she can attack them sitting on the floor.

 

[Deleted member 546149]

Not hurting anyone physically or breaking stores

 

[MikaDubbz]

Yeah, the woman sitting in the road is pretty peaceful. I'm sure the police have been told to fuck off before, they should be able to cope with that. Peaceful protesting has nothing to do with being quiet or invisible.

If she was throwing something at them then it wouldn't be peaceful, but it's not like she can attack them sitting on the floor.

Agreed, if your form of protesting includes being obnoxious or even spewing hate speech, but you aren't physically hurting anyone or damaging any property, then I'd say that's absolutely still a peaceful protest. You may come across as a douche bag in the process but nothing about it was actually violent.

 

[smf]

Agreed, if your form of protesting includes being obnoxious or even spewing hate speech, but you aren't physically hurting anyone or damaging any property, then I'd say that's absolutely still a peaceful protest.

I think making threats to people that would hurt them is also not peaceful. I'm not a first amendment cult member, but even if you have the legal right to say something then it doesn't mean it's peaceful.

I'm not bothered about snowflakes that are triggered by protesters daring to ask for things, but if a protester was intimidating someone then it's not really peaceful.

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Yeah, the woman sitting in the road is pretty peaceful. I'm sure the police have been told to fuck off before, they should be able to cope with that. Peaceful protesting has nothing to do with being quiet or invisible.

If she was throwing something at them then it wouldn't be peaceful, but it's not like she can attack them sitting on the floor.

I'm referring to the other woman, the social worker. Not the one that was originally there by herself. For the most part I would agree that the original woman was in fact peacefully protesting.

@Taleweaver

Read the comments section, plenty of truths in there about the social worker

 

[smf]

Read the comments section, plenty of truths in there about the social worker

Why would I care about the unverifiable opinions of randoms about a woman that happened to be walking past a protest?

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Why would I care about the unverifiable opinions of randoms about a woman that happened to be walking past a protest?

Unverifiable? Ummmmmmmm. Shes IN THE VIDEO SAYING AND DOING THE THINGS PEOPLE ARE ACCUSING HER OF. The point of reading the comments is to have insight as to why so many people feel she was in the wrong and NOT peacefully protesting, whatsoever. She was trying to incite violence and stir the entire fucking pot."walking past a protest"??? That's not even what happened. Did you even WATCH the video? Wow. Omfg. The lady you're saying "walked past" joined in the protest of the lady being perfectly peaceful sitting on the ground & started a complete shit show.

Directly quoting you, "if a protester was intimidating someone then it's not really peaceful." So what you're saying then, is that you agree the social worker that was protesting, was not peacefully protesting.

 

[smf]

was not peacefully protesting.

Did it affect anyone present? Whether something is peaceful or not comes down to whether there was conflict, you can't have one sided conflict.

 

[CMDreamer]

The only peaceful protesting I've ever known is the one made by Gandhi. Everything else is far distant from being peaceful, even yelling words at other people can't be considered peaceful.

Peace is a very distorted word, just like Democracy.

 

[Louse]

peace was never an option

crowbar is always the answer

 

[Seliph]

Peaceful protesting is punching cops in the face and calling them pussies

in minecraft

 

[chrisrlink]

The only peaceful protesting I've ever known is the one made by Gandhi. Everything else is far distant from being peaceful, even yelling words at other people can't be considered peaceful.

Peace is a very distorted word, just like Democracy.

as i posted earlier most civil rights protest were peaceful from the suppressors (Minority as in blacks) standpoint it's when we threw in the cops into the mix (all of them racist white men) that things got ugly