Who are these people that are tearing down a monument of a Union soldier?

[redstateblues]

Are they on our side? This is not a good look. What's next? Tearing down a Hank Aaron monument? C'mon people-don't give Trump stuff to rail about.

[John Fante]

1. LWNJs or right-wingers posing as LWNJs

Giving Trump something to rail against IS the goal of this nonsense.

[greenjar_01]

2. Def not a good look

Utterly silly is the most generous judgment.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. What's your side?

[redstateblues]

5. The side that wants Trump gone. Pretty simple really.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. If you define your side politically, then non-political actions may look unhelpful to you.

[redstateblues]

13. Who benefits from those actions? They sure appear to be making some sort

of statement. Beating up a politician, a Democratic state senator, seems to be a political statement of some sort.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. Who benefits from you directing your energy toward worrying about them and how the

"other side" might see/use them?

[The Magistrate]

16. Who Do You Think Benefits From That, Ma'am?

[Blue_true]

21. The action of pulling down statues is both asinine and counter-productive.

County, city and town councils across the country are removing or looking at removing offensive statues, going to council meetings and voicing an opinion works better than mob violence. Also, mob violence can be cooped by people that have zero interest in the social justice positions that underlay our issues with some statues.

[Mariana]

4. That's a very good question.

Until you know who they are, it's probably best not to speculate about what their motivations and intentions are.

[stillcool]

7. yeah...who are they

How many were arrested? There's got to be video. Very strange.

[sarisataka]

8. Apparently these people

Demonstrators issue demands the morning after violent protests, statues toppled

The morning after day-long protests turned violent, ending in property damage, two landmark statues being toppled, and an alleged attack on a state senator, a spokesperson who said she represented “a united front of organizers and activists for black liberation” issued a series of demands.

The spokesperson, Ebony Anderson-Carter, said she was speaking on behalf of multiple groups. In her statement, she said they were demanding the release of the man whose arrest Tuesday afternoon triggered the protests. The groups also demanded a Madison Police Department officer be fired and that the department itself be defunded and the money be “reallocated to the community.”

“The Madison Police Department serves and protects profit not people because they would have protected us when we were being hit out here and not being violent,” she said.

Anderson-Carter went on to describe the groups’ efforts as “a revolutionary fight” for human rights on behalf of all oppressed people.

https://www.nbc15.com/2020/06/24/this-is-a-revolutionary-fight-demonstrators-issue-demands-the-morning-after-violent-protests-statues-toppled/

[superpatriotman]

9. These 'multiple groups' need to find better spokespeople

And craft better messages.

Because what I heard was nonsense.

It's getting harder to defend this bs to the middle.

[The Magistrate]

10. In Other Words, Sir, Revolutionist Larpers

A man walking through a restaurant with a baseball bat and a bull-horn stating he was disrupting the place ought to be arrested.

These people are what is left on the flats when the tide runs out, and that is about all. The crowds of people protesting legitimate grievances no longer give them cover, so they can be seen in their true light.

[JHB]

18. I state now, sir, that I fully intend to steal the phrase "Revolutionist Larpers"

[The Magistrate]

20. By All Means, Friend

"Free to all finders, birds, beasts, Elves or Men, and all kindly creatures."

[Crunchy Frog]

22. So rule by mob basically.

[Blue_true]

23. Her "statement" is why I have big issues with street action.

A righteous grievance has been coopted by extremists who have no interests in peaceful resolution of differences.

Any person that is walking around property with a baseball bat needs to be arrested. Some of the same people who go apeshit when a righty is walking around private property with an AR-15 are ok with a person doing the same with a baseball bat, it is utter nonsense.

[Amishman]

11. some people just want to destroy

and will rally under any banner that gives than an excuse to do so

[Blue_true]

24. I agree. That possibility is why I don't care for street protests.

There is always going to be an anti-social element involved that want nothing but chaos, and when they get the chance, they bring that about.

[bottomofthehill]

12. Fools that are there protesting to protest.

No cause necessary

[MichMan]

15. When less than half of people can name one SC justice, I doubt many even know who the statues are

other than some old white guy on a horse. They see news clips of others doing it and just want to vandalize something themselves.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. This. nt

[onethatcares]

19. k & r

nt

[Raine]

25. Anarchists ... nt