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 (DIR) Post #AhIenfnfDNmBd7kU6q by alexwild@mastodon.online
       2024-04-26T21:01:49Z
       
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       Campuses aren't being rocked by protests. They're being rocked by politicized administrators ordering students beaten and jailed to satisfy the political elite.Let's be clear who is causing the violence.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhIey0A8MY1jg9BSzI by IveyJanette@mastodon.social
       2024-04-26T21:16:39Z
       
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       @alexwild They want to shut down campuses entirely. Just like during the civil rights movement.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhIf1Y42lzsLgy1i2S by janisf@mstdn.social
       2024-04-26T23:19:56Z
       
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       @alexwild As an organizer of a 100K-attendee Women's March: we arranged with the city police before we protested.  They knew we would be there, we knew they would be there, we ordered porta-potties and garbage cans and we left the place spotless.Biggest global march fucking ever.  No police incidents to speak of.Everyone conscious tenses up when there's unexpected shit going down.  Everyone.The kids aren't driving the violence, but they aren't using proven methods to mitigate it, either.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhIf1Yptu49m5OPvdI by enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social
       2024-04-26T23:36:10Z
       
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       @janisf @alexwild If you had the consent of the police, then was it really a protest?
       
 (DIR) Post #AhIf1ZmkNHED1twvM8 by janisf@mstdn.social
       2024-04-27T00:03:09Z
       
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       @enoch_exe_inc @alexwild Policing will never, ever go away, no matter where you go, there will be an establishment that is bumbling along at a losing attempt to suppress violence with violence.If you want to protest violence, you do everything in your power to not instigate more of it, no matter who it's coming from.  And you prove it by publishing believable attempts at violence mitigation, repeatedly.  The problem is that violence & fear-mongering is what gets attention. Receipts are boring.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhIf1aMYE9rsowhWAC by enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social
       2024-04-27T00:16:21Z
       
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       @janisf @enoch_exe_inc @alexwild All politics features violence of some kind. Politics, after all, is the distribution of power, and power is enforced with violence. So, protests against violence are not necessarily against violent acts in and of themselves, but rather against the legitimacy of that violence.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhIf1btYWvrZZb9OFM by enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social
       2024-04-27T00:24:17Z
       
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       @janisf @enoch_exe_inc @alexwild Also, those who favour ‘peaceful’ or ‘nonviolent’ protest must know, at least subconsciously, that pacifism is an absurdly privileged position to take up. You can only protest as peacefully as the law allows you to, and when all peaceful means have been exhausted, violence is inevitable.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhIfB13IMl3uCdBtrs by patcanfield@mastodon.social
       2024-04-27T01:08:10Z
       
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       @alexwild As has been the case in BLM, Floyd murder, and on and on(backwards and forwards)--the 'authorities cause the 'violence'