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Actually l lied and think this is probably worth its own post, because of a specific section in the post Kitten linked:
The goal here is pretty clearly to enlist dumb women to obstruct the police in dangerous ways, with the hope of provoking a violent response that party organisations can exploit for further activism and propaganda.
The truth is that the precise angle of the tires and exact positioning of the ICE agent’s body with respect to the left headlight of the Honda Pilot don’t matter very much. A shooting like this was inevitable given the protest tactics at hand, and more shootings will follow. Each one will be decried by the activist left, and should a protestor ever kill an ICE agent instead, the protesters won’t miss a beat in celebrating his death.
I think there is a peculiar authoritarian / conservative mindset that
Equates obstruction, noncompliance, and non-violent protest with violence.
Treats law enforcement agents as forces of nature that are not responsible for the violence they inflict so long as it has been sufficiently “provoked”.
This results in the confusing belief that non-violent protest and obstruction is “escalation” that will inevitably provoke law enforcement into murder.
It also leads to weird sentences like that last one, which includes the phrase:
should a protestor ever kill an ICE agent instead
Which is a very strange thing to fixate on, given that we are talking about a situation in which an ICE agent killed a protestor, not some hypothetically reversed scenario. “What if the non-violent protestor had killed the violent law enforcement agent??” is a question only asked by those who view the protestors as far more dangerous than they are, which also explains the “we are at war” rhetoric.
