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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 06:08 PM Jun 2020

They don't want peace, they want submission



They are cowards, you should not be police if your first instinct is to fire first. Policing by consent rather than force should always be the ideal. But white racist supremacy always be nazi...
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They don't want peace, they want submission (Original Post) Soph0571 Jun 2020 OP
notice they are saying they want to *stop* the *protests* unblock Jun 2020 #1
I agree with this assessment Skittles Jun 2020 #2
They're not going to get it. coti Jun 2020 #3

unblock

(56,262 posts)
1. notice they are saying they want to *stop* the *protests*
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 06:20 PM
Jun 2020

not stop the looting.
not make sure the protests are peaceful.

they want to stop the protests.

it's not about peace or the law or anything.

it's about us not *objecting* to white supremacist rule.

Skittles

(172,892 posts)
2. I agree with this assessment
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 06:21 PM
Jun 2020

I read in another quote they want to return to the "right normal" - yeah, well, it ain't just black folk who don't care for what passes as "normal" these days.

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