Can't read that due to a paywall, but you do know that we live in an era where video can be easily shared, right? We've watched the left and antifa burn down buildings, watched police force to form a line around a church to prevent "peaceful BLM protestors" from looting, seen the aftermath of these "peaceful protests."
You can try and claim that burning down buildings, lighting police cars on fire, smashing windows and looting stores is "peaceful" all you want, but we can see it happening in real time from p
This is actually the problem. You see the videos that highlight your latent bias and beliefs. Imagine there was 100,000 hours of protests. Now imagine we have 100 hours of bad actors doing bad things. You will watch those 100 hours and you will say "All protests are violent hateful and extreme" because you simply are informed by the sound bytes and videos of social media.
You slowly start to reject all information that does not meet your worldview and move to extremist views. You doubt everything that causes
No, not really. Nobody denies that there are peaceful protestors on the left. And that even the majority of them were so. The problem arises when you have the mainstream media abandoning any pretense of objectivity and overtly twisting their reporting to maintain their preferred narrative. An obvious example being CNN's infamous "fiery but mostly peaceful protests." [washingtontimes.com]
Ugh, where are you getting your news? A police officer was hit with bear spray and hit in the head with a fire extinguisher on the day of the riot. That is in addition to all the injuries of both policies, protestors, and victims inside the capital building.
If you wanna argue the thing is over-hyped go for it, the media sensationalizes everything. 5 people die a direct consequence of events that happened on that day. Just because it took a few people a little longer to croak doesn't suddenly make the cause
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:07PM (#61292010)
A police officer was hit with bear spray and hit in the head with a fire extinguisher on the day of the riot.
Ironic that you'd post that today because it's just breaking that almost none of that happened [npr.org]. Turns out, the police officer who died, Officer Sicknick, died of two separate and unrelated strokes. There was no evidence of trauma, or internal or external injuries. The bear spray did not cause an allergic reaction.
I'm using NPR as a source because I hope that will be seen as trustworthy enough to be considered true, but you can find it in all major media. Finally. Despite the fact that this has been known since late January.
Double standard (Score:5, Insightful)
If they held facebook to the same standard it would probably never get back on the app store
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An Twitter, and YouTube. But we live in the age that Riots = Peaceful Protesting. Meh.
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Fake news was telling you America was burning to the ground. Meanwhile in reality https://time.com/5886348/repor... [time.com]
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Can't read that due to a paywall, but you do know that we live in an era where video can be easily shared, right? We've watched the left and antifa burn down buildings, watched police force to form a line around a church to prevent "peaceful BLM protestors" from looting, seen the aftermath of these "peaceful protests."
You can try and claim that burning down buildings, lighting police cars on fire, smashing windows and looting stores is "peaceful" all you want, but we can see it happening in real time from p
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This is actually the problem. You see the videos that highlight your latent bias and beliefs. Imagine there was 100,000 hours of protests. Now imagine we have 100 hours of bad actors doing bad things. You will watch those 100 hours and you will say "All protests are violent hateful and extreme" because you simply are informed by the sound bytes and videos of social media.
You slowly start to reject all information that does not meet your worldview and move to extremist views. You doubt everything that causes
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"5 dead and congress hiding from a mob in a mostly peaceful protest at the capitol today."
Re: Double standard (Score:0)
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Ugh, where are you getting your news? A police officer was hit with bear spray and hit in the head with a fire extinguisher on the day of the riot. That is in addition to all the injuries of both policies, protestors, and victims inside the capital building.
If you wanna argue the thing is over-hyped go for it, the media sensationalizes everything. 5 people die a direct consequence of events that happened on that day. Just because it took a few people a little longer to croak doesn't suddenly make the cause
Re: Double standard (Score:1)
A police officer was hit with bear spray and hit in the head with a fire extinguisher on the day of the riot.
Ironic that you'd post that today because it's just breaking that almost none of that happened [npr.org]. Turns out, the police officer who died, Officer Sicknick, died of two separate and unrelated strokes. There was no evidence of trauma, or internal or external injuries. The bear spray did not cause an allergic reaction.
I'm using NPR as a source because I hope that will be seen as trustworthy enough to be considered true, but you can find it in all major media. Finally. Despite the fact that this has been known since late January.