I can think of one answer, find the Oklahoma students who sent those texts, and force them to sit in front of a room full of U of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State football players who happen to be black, and make them read the texts they sent. No violence, just having to look at the players faces I guarantee you would scare the crap out of them.
^^…even while invoking the spectre of the boogie man that those young men will try desperately for the rest of their lives to slake off.
I hear you, though.
@greenwitch a question about your accounting: does 1 email = 1 riot?
I am opposed to any politically motivated violence. I assume everyone here thinks likewise. But an email is not tantamount to violence. Graffiti is not violence. Attacking women and beating them is actual violence. Arson with people around is an act of violence. Riots and flashmobs are violence. Disrupting interstates and traffic is actual mayhem. Increasingly, the boundary between the actual and the metaphorical seems lost. Hence the snowflake threads.
A 10-year-old girl had to leave school early because a boy grabbed a certain part of her anatomy and said, “well the president does it”. Is that violence to you?
Does property damage = damage to the human psyche caused by hatred and racism? Does a broken window need to go to counseling? Do sandblasters who clean up graffiti that is political suffer more than when they clean up graffiti that is not political?
It was more than one email. And it implied racial violence. How many people in this country have died from racial violence? I don’t know. So “one email” that:
is OK since there was no “violence”?
That is the real mayhem, not disrupting a street. I count human beings as being more important that streets, windows and concrete surfaces. I don’t condone vandalism, but the email sent to the Penn students was far, far more damaging than any graffiti.
Intimidation is aggression.
Sandblasters suffer horribly. Come on. Sticks and stones - remember what used to be taught children?
The guys in Oklahoma have been apprehended and, as far as I know, are suffering the appropriate consequences. Not much effort being made to curtail the riots and attacks.
I don’t see a lot of outrage about women being seriously assaulted by mobs, riots, arson, and the like which are on a mass scale.
I encourage you to share credible reports of “women being seriously assaulted by mobs on a mass scale.”
“I don’t see a lot of outrage about women being seriously assaulted by mobs, riots, arson, and the like which are on a mass scale.”
Huh? I too want proof. From a reputable source please.
I did not say that women were being assaulted on a mass scale. I meant that multiple riots and flashmobs are on a relatively mass scale compared to some emails from guys in Oklahoma and a guy defacing a wall with graffiti. In other words, groups of hundreds are on a different scale than isolated events.
I’d like to go back to a point in time when “flash mob” meant a group of people dancing in unison in a pseudo-spontaneous fashion.
Seems to me that the vast majority of protests have been peaceful not riots or “flashmob”. Plus, there have been many more instances of racial and other type attacks and graffiti than the two mentioned.
Don’t you all know that all peaceful demonstrations are riots when black and brown people participate? Besides, the demonstrators are being paid. (I guess by the global elites and the international bankers.)
On the other hand, I guess none what’s described in the following links counts. A swastika or two never actually hurt anyone, right? And Latinx students being handed fake deportation notices? It’s just a joke! Get over it, people!
http://blog.adl.org/anti-semitism/rash-of-vandalism-and-swastikas-reported-following-election-day
Really, if a particular poster is trying to be funny, we’re missing the joke. These things happen and to try to rank them is just odd.
It’s one thing to say, let’s get some more info or check other sources. Quite another to dismiss them as too isolated for concern.
History has shown its dangerous to have a citizenry that sticks its head in the sand ignoring what is going on, and even worse, excusing it.
“A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property or people.” Not sure why you think race plays a part in it. Some people see race in everything. If I were to see a few hundred angry people coming for my head, I would not be very concerned about their race.
My point is that the so-called “riots” are largely non-existent (except in the PNW), and people who talk about them are ignoring the fact that most of the demonstrations across the country have been entirely peaceful.
These protests aren’t folks just being “sore losers” but citizens who are concerned about the future of their country. There are certainly some who have joined the protests with the intent of creating chaos but you will find peaceful protesters who do their best to shut that sort of violence down.
And if you’d like you can easily find many calls to protest and incite a “revolution” from our prez-elect around 2012 so let’s not get into a debate about snowflake populace or hypocrisy shall we…
If you talk about the shooting in Seattle, it happened at the time when the protesters were just beginning to gather at Westlake. The shooting did NOT happen at the protest as some media outlets quickly cried, and it was NOT related to the protest, and happened about a block away. So much for “violence during the anti-Trump rally.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/11/10/shooting-downtown-seattle/93580746/
The marchers peacefully proceeded to Capitol hill.
During the protest marches happening in my city, every night since Tuesday, the only violence happened when people with a different opinion jumped one of the protesters. There were other attempts, but they were deflected. Considering how widespread these protests have been, there’s been very little violence, thankfully.
Exactly what are they protesting? That one party chose a candidate that couldn’t garner enough support to defeat one of the most flawed candidates in history? Protesting yourselves…that’s a new one.
Protesting because of what they “think” the country could become…hmmm. Do they not realize that half of the country protested what the country has already become in the proper way…by voting.
Google Jonathan Pie’s rant about the election and maybe some of the enlightened and outraged will see where this country has gone off the rails. Pay particular attention to the parts about intelligent debate, insults, and name-calling…then think back to some of the posts you’ve made here on CC. Food for thought.
And exactly what are the people trying to express who are harassing blacks, Muslims, gay people, etc.?