quash said:
Oldbear83 said:
quash said:
Oldbear83 said:
Pretending 95% of BLM protests were "peaceful" is laughably dishonest.
No kidding, it's probably over 98%.
You really have no idea what goes on in the real world.
Perhaps you could cite a source for your claim. "93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful: Report | Time" https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/?amp=true
I would be interested to the know the number of people at each event and the dollar amount of damage caused at each, as well.
If your metric is the number of different incidents, then there's one argument
If your metric is the average number of people involved at each, then there's another argument
If your metric is the amount of damage, then there's another argument
If one guy standing on a street corner holding up a sign that read "Honk if you don't hate black people", was that counted as a peaceful protest in another area?
If, during a war, the USA dropped 100 conventional little bombs on a sparsely populated area and the enemy dropped one nuclear bomb on a densely populated area, the headlines could easily read "USA dropping more bombs than their enemy at a rate of 100 to 1', leading some to believe that the other country's bombing campaign was not as heavy handed as the USA's.
If BLMers orchastrated 2,000 small non-violent protests over there and 200 large violent riots over here.... A reasonable person could conclude that no, the protest were not mostly "peaceful", despite the metric someone chooses to use.