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Originally Posted by cd288
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I mostly agree with you except on your point that you can't lump violent protesters in with peaceful protesters. I think you can and should do exactly that. You want to start and organize a protest? Great, have at it. But you should be considered one protest and be responsible for the actions of people in the protest you organized and/or supported. Just like Trump should be responsible for the actions of the protest he created.
This dynamic particularly irked me in the context of the BLM protests because (i) they say all cops are bad because of the actions of a subset of bad cops, but we are supposedly not allowed to apply the same standard to the protesters if there are a subset of bad protesters, and (ii) they were all about this whole abolish the police and replace it with community policing, but instead of policing their own protesters they just tried to wash their hands of it and say those people aren't our problem.
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I think you have to treat protestors/rioters as individuals to keep the flame burning. Shared culpability would lead to state provacateurs committing acts to shut down dissent.
Second part, cops are the hands of the state, privileged to commit legal violence. They should meet a higher standard. I care about this part less tho