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MTZehvor on 25 January 2017
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NightDragon83 said:
monocle_layton said:

I don't want to go on a rant or go off topic, but the beginning of the video clearly shows that they're set out to demoralize an entire protest with 150,000 people just because less than 1% of the people were jackasses. Just look at the description. Their intention was most likely to show this to make it seem like the protest was a hidden attempt to let people do a bunch of stuff against non-protestors.

I'm not supporting this at all, but when people only care about news for the sake of satisfying their belief (i.e this group is bad/good, etc.), then we end up seeing a huge cluster of info wars.

I participated in a debate class last year during my final year in High School. Unfortunately, most people were either hardcore liberal or hardcore conservative (says a lot about the quality of the class, right?). We once had a debate about US politics, and it eventually turned into a "He said this" and "she did that" debate (if you could even call it a debate). One person would share an event done by a liberal, the other would counterattack with an event done by a conservative/religious nut, etc. Became even dumber when the class had a debate about feminism. Turned into hell. I honestly feel dumbfounded by how people can quickly take any sort of event and twist it upside down to satisfy their own egos. How did we become so humiliating?

American politics really need a reformation.

Dude, hundreds of thousands of people protested Obama at various "tea party" rallies and such over the previous 8 years, and there was NOTHING at any of those protests even remotely close to the violence that has occurred at protests and demonstrations just days into Trump's term in office.  We've already had Trump supporters sucker punched and beaten, and plenty of destruction occurred during the anti-Trump protests after the November election.

Between the post-election protests back in November and the violence we saw in the streets the day before and during Inauguration Day, there's been more violence at anti-Trump protests these past couple months than during all the anti-Obama rallies in 8 years combined.  The only thing more violent in recent memory has been some of the Black Lives Matter riots protests, and again its usually left-wing agitators helping to escalate things and fan the flames at those protests as well.

I don't think Layton's trying to say that both sides are equally violent (although there has been some awful shit pulled at Trump rallies). His post is essentially "both sides have a tendency to only see what they want to see out of the news." Liberals will consistently ignore the acts of violence by their members and focus on the less than respectable conservatives who bring effigies of a hung black man to anti-Obama rallies, and Conservatives will ignore racism by their members and focus on the violence of the nutcases that exist on the left.

The point is that we shouldn't look at this video and assume every protestor is like that (for what it's worth, I don't think posting this video will necessarily do that). Making comments like OP did in topic, however, will.