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Originally Posted by Tradesonred
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Yes its an appeal to emotion. Cops ripped apart a 21 yo girl's arm to dissuade people from protesting a pipeline that puts at risk the clean water of millions of people. Just to outline the hypocrisy of people here talking about freedom this freedom that but excuse rights crushing cops at any chance they get.
Its not Keystone XL by the way. Its the DAPL pipeline.
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sorry i was multitasking shitposting on a few websites and crossed wires in my brain.
emotion != logic
what i'm trying to say is, you can't just use "something bad happened to a protestor" to strawman a discussion about how Standing Rock Sioux tribal leaders and Obama fucked off this issue leading it to get to this point in the first place.
nobody is disagreeing with you that the way the police are handling protestors is fucked up. it's not like i haven't seen the videos either. stop trying to strawman me.
i was pointing out the impact on oil dependence in the middle east because it showcases the fact that you've been shoehorned into a narrow and emotion-driven view of a greater issue. Just pointing out the irony behind the emotional appeal from some girl's arm getting blown off by a less-lethal while ignoring the greater global impact of US dependence on foreign oil. but hey let's not think about the people who are being killed every day and subjected to the tyrannical rule of tribal warlords as a direct result of Obama's actions and a dependence on middle east oil just because they aren't the right shade of brown to tug at your heartstrings or far enough away to pretend they don't exist.
the police handling of the protests and the pipeline itself are two separate issues. in your mind you're "right" because you have tunnel vision. in reality, the pipeline is good and the polices' handling of the protest is bad. you're suggesting that both ideas are inclusive, when they have nothing to do with each other. pointing out "cops did fucked up things to the protestors" doesn't make the protesters right. you're giving them a martyr complex. stop it.