[ExI] Protest

[William Flynn Wallace]

I hope things change. I truly do.  But I am a cynic about change, whether
in individuals trying to lose weight, or some other habit, or in bigots who
are holding on tightly to their delusions and isms.  You can pass laws but
you cannot legislate morality.  If the laws on limited immunity get
quashed, there will be multimillion dollar lawsuits against police
brutality, and winning a few of those will change things more than anything
else, in my entirely valid and correct opinion.   Government at any level
will notice and do something to stop the lawsuits.    bill w

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 4:57 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *>…* *On Behalf Of *Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat
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> >…But it doesn't strike you at all as ironic that when protesting police
> misconduct, especially if as a protester you believe this is rampant and
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> There’s more to it than that.  Black Lives Matter are protesting a
> particular type of police misconduct: racially-motivated police brutality.
> They don’t want to be conflated with these other groups who are taking
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> I need to look again, but as I understood it, the guy they handed over was
> white and the people they gave him to were not the police, they were
> national guard.
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> In any case, images are a powerful thing.  That one short video
> differentiated BLM from vandals, anarchists, looters and those who
> specifically want to harm law enforcement.  That one short video changed
> more minds than any fiery speech.  It demonstrated that BLM is us: they
> want to stop racism.  Well so do we.  They want fairness for everyone,
> regardless of race.  So do we.  We are all with Black Lives Matter.
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> We are against anarchy, against antifa, against vandalism, against harming
> police.  We are in unison with Black Lives Matter.
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