Update your scorecards: Protest Violence

By | November 15, 2011

If the right has a protest movement, the potential for violence must be trumpeted on every evening newscast for weeks.

If the left has a protest movement, the actual violence must be downplayed, dismissed, obfuscated, or blamed on agent provocateurs.

Please update your scorecards.

2 thoughts on “Update your scorecards: Protest Violence

  1. Secret Squirrel

    The whole “agent provocateur” thing has always baffled me. IF (and it’s a big IF) the police/etc took part in such activities, a major contributor to their being able to do so is the protestors’ acceptance of people hiding their faces and their failure to eject the black bloc.

    But I suppose it’s much easier to whine about your protest being subverted (by the police or by violent actors within your movement) than to do something about it.

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