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Sep. 25th, 2017 09:25 pmDon't you just love the tired old logical fallacy that exercising our right to free speech and protest is disrespectful to those who fight and die for our right to free speech and protest.
The fake president's inciting employers of protestors to fire them is a massively outrageous offense to the Constitution and the right to free expression in this country and everywhere.
This kind of nonviolent protest is exactly what gets called for when there are riots. But then nonviolent protest is ignored or suppressed just like what's happening here, and that's when the riots start.
The overwhelming counterreaction to the fake president's attempted fascism from those he addressed it to is encouraging but let's not allow it to distract us from the deadly, systemic issue that the protests are there to highlight: the runaway police brutality in this country and the racism that it propagates.
The fake president's inciting employers of protestors to fire them is a massively outrageous offense to the Constitution and the right to free expression in this country and everywhere.
This kind of nonviolent protest is exactly what gets called for when there are riots. But then nonviolent protest is ignored or suppressed just like what's happening here, and that's when the riots start.
The overwhelming counterreaction to the fake president's attempted fascism from those he addressed it to is encouraging but let's not allow it to distract us from the deadly, systemic issue that the protests are there to highlight: the runaway police brutality in this country and the racism that it propagates.
