Well 15% of protests turned riots is far far too many as well!
That was the truth. If you look at the video, all the people he shot were either chasing him or attacking him. And did Trump actually call the Rittenhouse attackers BLM rioters? Or just rioters.
Nobody faulted Colin because his protest was peaceful, they faulted him because they did not agree with what he was protesting against, and the platform he was using to accomplish this. Big difference.
Oh! So he wasn't protesting in the exact acceptable way they preferred.
It doesn't make the protest wrong, but it will cause people to complain about your protest! And that is exactly what a lot of people did.
No; he was protesting in a way they disapproved of. Why do you not have a problem with his peaceful protest, but you don’t approve of people peacefully objecting to his protest? You think just because your protest is peaceful, everybody has to agree with you?
Why does it have to be difficult?
It wasn’t just a (half) black man kneeling during the anthem, (the protest started when he sat down; before he changed it to kneeling) it was a rich football star protesting in a way that insulted a lot of people. When you insult people, they will object to what you are doing.
Further, it’s been reported that in those 7% instances where the protests did break out into violence or property damage, more than half were instigated by right-wing counter protestors. Here’s a great article that delves into all the statistics: Demonstrations & Political Violence in America: New Data for Summer 2020 | ACLED
Movie stars and athletes have a reputation of using their position to influence people on issues they little or nothing about. I remember an instance when Goldie Hawn was doing such a thing and she ended her speech with "everybody should contact their representative and let them know these issues are important" and someone from the crowd asked Goldie; who is your representative Goldie? She began to stutter and pause when someone from her crew interrupted and answered the question for her because it was obvious she didn't know. Here she was asking people to do what she obviously hadn't done because she didn't even know who her representative was! Sometimes people get tired of all of that; just because you have talent in one area doesn't mean you know what you're talking about in other areas. These people don't know any more than you, me, or anybody else; yet they expect us to listen to them.
Or perhaps I don't need someone who don't even know who their representative is, telling me to contact mine about what they feel is important
Yes, it will. And that means the protest is working - a protest that offends no one is pointless. But voicing objection to the manner of protest (assuming the protest harms no one) is a sign that you don't have any meaningful counter to the subject of the protest. Tell me, who was harmed by Kaepernick kneeling (or even sitting) for the anthem?
Given the events of the past few years, I think Colin Kaepernick had a pretty good idea of what he was talking about.
Nobody has to be harmed in order for them to disagree with the point he was making.
I'm sure Kaepernick did know what he was talking about, and those who disagree with him knew what they were talking about as well. And Kaepernick was not the only one kneeling; we had teams going to foreign countries to play; like Mexico a place said to be guilty of far more rights violations against black people than in the United States, yet they stood while the Mexico national anthem was being played, and kneeled while the American national anthem was being played. If they knew what they were talking about, perhaps they would have kneeled for the Mexican anthem considering the treatment of black people in that country
Then they should disagree with the point rather than the method of expression. I, for one, saw far more of the latter than the former.
Knowing what you're talking about does not mean omniscience. They were protesting the mistreatment of the Black community in the United States. That was a topic that they were informed on. Why should a bunch of Americans who have never lived in Mexico be expected to know about the situation of the Black community there?
I saw an equal amount of both
Because ignorance or not, when you give respect to the country that does more harm, and disrespect to the country that does less harm, it makes you look bad and gives your enemies more ammunition to use against you.
For some reason your assertion doesn't seem to be having much impact on them. Any ideas why?
