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dickslapthestate:in-all-conscience:sosungalittleclodofclay:in-all-conscience:sosungalittleclodofclay:in-all-conscience:HOW ABOUT LITERALLY THROWING PHOTOGRAPHERS INTO FIRES AND SHOOTING PEOPLE YOU DISINGENUOUS FUCKinteresting, what did you think about the US revolutionaries taring and feathering redcoats and tories was?Not any more acceptable.so you oppose the founding fathers and the revoltionary war, believe that we should all have been monarchists?see how this black and white thinking of yours(pun not intended but it’s there) screws your own damn self over?No, you specifically asked me about tarring and feathering.This image and the sentiment behind it is, of course, extremely simplistic and strips both events of all their context. The Boston Tea Party was not about random destruction of property and blind outrage. They didn’t destroy anything on the ships and didn’t touch anything except the tea. They did this purposefully because they wanted the focus to be on the fact that they were protesting the Tea Act of 1773. After its passing, the colonists were legally bound to only drink British tea, which was taxed for them. The government tried to use tea as a way to siphon tax money out of the colonists against their will and the colonists destroyed the tea as a way to demonstrate that they would not accept such an injustice. The destruction of the tea was both purposeful and symbolically significant to the protest they were making. Use force to make us pay for tea? Well now your tea is at the bottom of the harbor. The actions of the protesters had relevance to the cause being protested for.The property destruction in the riots happening these days have NOTHING to do with what’s being protested. Firstly, we’re assuming that the protesters even have a legitimate gripe, which is debatable. Often times (though not always), they march out in the street to defend a person who was justifiably shot by police. Secondly, even if we give them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the purpose of their protest, that still doesn’t excuse the fact that they’re actively harming people in their own community. Their neighbors are the ones left having to pick up the pieces of the business they tried to run legitimately to survive in the impoverished state they live in.Next we have the genius above who cited tarring and feathering. Now I’m not one to defend the practice, however I still feel there’s a profound difference between that and the assaults taking place today. For one, there is not one recorded death that resulted from a mob tarring and feathering someone (at least during the Revolutionary War). Secondly, the targets were politically significant, just like with the Boston Tea Party. They were typically customs service employees and informers. The colonists were protesting taxation and therefore chose the targets of their protest as those who were complicit in enacting that unjust taxation.This is nothing like the stuff we’ve seen in the riots where mobs will simply rush any white person who is unfortunate enough to enter the vicinity and beat them. Shouts of “he white?! get him!” are not a protest of injustice. Their so-called protest is meaningless. The real message they’re conveying is “I want to act morally superior and shout about problems that I assume must be other people’s fault, but I will pay no attention to the harm my own actions inflict on my community.” -- source link

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