Dan Rather: Can you even begin to imagine what would happen if these caravans...

[Nevilledog]

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Dan Rather
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Can you even begin to imagine what would happen if these caravans were made up of Black people? The thought experiment is the very definition of systemic racism and White privilege.
5:07 PM · Nov 1, 2020

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Good point. Or, if these were of latin american descent, or anything else too? Just like the ...

caravans that trump made a big how to do that were supposedly approaching the US borders from the Mexican side of the border. Same effect. Mr. Rather makes a very on the nail head observation.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. From the horror movie...........

"The caravans are coming from 'inside the country!'"

[brush]

2. Dan Rather is spot on again.

[bluestarone]

4. WOW

True words here!

[intheflow]

5. I don't have to imagine because I know about the Freedom Riders in 1961.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/may-21-1961-famously-hospitable-southerners-greet-freedom-riders-death-threats-and-riots/

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[Ford_Prefect]

23. This is what has already happened.

The grand-children of those who attacked the Freedom buses are driving the flag-waving pickups, or giving them uniformed escort, while following the family traditions of racist oppression.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. 2 sets of rules - STILL.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Very much so. We have moved back a lot in four years. And it wasn't that good before that.

[WyattKansas]

7. Fux Newz demanding 24/7 that Apache Gun Ships patrol highways to obliterate the caravans?

Yes, Republicans are all that unstable and nuts.

[BobTheSubgenius]

8. No police escort, for sure.

[AmericanCanuck]

9. Dan Rather hits the nail right on the head

[gratuitous]

10. We don't have to imagine

In Portland, peaceful demonstrators downtown were targets for vehicles driven by both the police and right wing domestic terrorists. They were gassed, shot with "less lethal" rounds, beaten with batons, and scooped up in unmarked vans by nameless law enforcement personnel.

[bdamomma]

11. We have

Domestic terrorists in our own country.

This must stop.

[SledDriver]

12. Domestic terrorists

Seriously, is this



all that different from this?

[Evolve Dammit]

16. No it's not.

[eppur_se_muova]

25. Don't be silly -- they have COMPLETELY different flags ! Anyone can see that ! nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

35. At least they had the incentive to create their own flag

And not just appropriate another one and claim it represents them.

[Neema]

39. While I don't agree with ISIS one bit, one has to assume its members have endured a lot of violence,

strife and hardship. What the fuck are the MAGAs even protesting? Their butthurt that they can't use the N word in public?

[Cha]

13. Yeah, we've seen some of that action

and it's been ugly by the police.

They'd better make these Maggot Morons pay for their crimes.

[Klaralven]

14. Sort of depends on the circumstances

Demonstrators Close Down I-94 In St. Paul In Protest Of Breonna Taylor’s Death
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/09/23/the-whole-thing-is-just-a-mess-minnesotans-speak-out-after-indictment-in-breonna-taylors-death/

Protesters shut down I-35W in Minneapolis during rush hour; 41 arrested
https://www.startribune.com/protesters-block-i-35w-in-minneapolis/386622281/

The Brooklyn Bridge is shut down by protesters fairly regularly. It is not an Interstate, but it connects I-278 with Manhattan.

Blocking highways has become a fairly conventional protest tactic.

[LisaM]

17. While I don't necessarily agree with the tactic

I don't think it's quite the same. Reckless driving can cause serious accidents and death.

[Klaralven]

18. Is there any evidence that they were reckless?

A few dozen cars driving across all lanes at a few mph isn't particularly reckless.

[LisaM]

20. They hit a car and terrified the people in the bus.

So yeah.

[Klaralven]

29. I was thinking about the Garden State Parkway and Mario Cuomo Bridge blockages.

[intheflow]

26. The difference being one group protests against injustice and the other

protests in favor of injustices. The left's protests are nonviolent. The right uses fear and intimidation. You can't equate the actions because both the aims and the intent are miles apart.

[Klaralven]

27. All protests involve fear and intimidation. There would be no point otherwise.

If a protest were held somewhere that did not bother people, an abandoned mall parking lot, for example, it wouldn't get covered by the media and nobody would care.

[intheflow]

30. All protests DO NOT involve fear and intimidation!

Bridge/road blocks by the left are not led by people wielding guns. When peaceful protesters block a road it is to raise awareness, to disrupt power. That is in no way the same tactic as using fear and intimidation.

[Klaralven]

31. How is power disrupted, other than by fear and intimidation?

[intheflow]

34. You're really scared by peaceful protests, aren't you?

I've been peacefully protesting for 35 years, the only fear I've ever felt was from the police and other racists/warmongers who opposed us. GTFO with your wildly distorted and unsubstantiated views.

[KentuckyWoman]

32. That is not true.

Sitting at a lunch counter minding your own business is not fear and intimidation. Walking down the street with a sign is not fear and intimidation. Encouraging people to look at their own wrongness is not intimidation. Demanding justice is not intimidation.

They provoked yes. But fear and intimidate, no.

[Fla Dem]

19. Don't call them caravans, they're domestic terrorist intimidation.

[KentuckyWoman]

33. Driving around with your SUV decorated is a parade.

Impeding traffic, aggressive driving, and flashing guns is intimidation.

If it's just MAGA pride then leave the damn guns at home and obey the traffic laws. Don't drive aggressive. But ... no...

They ARE terrorizing people. Not because of the Trump decor. That just makes them stupid.

[dalton99a]

21. Kick

[Blue Owl]

22. K&R

[eppur_se_muova]

24. Well, look what happened to black people who tried to MARCH to the polls -- no guns, no trucks --

all they brought was prayer. And cops considered them enough of a threat to pepper-spray them.

[Neema]

37. Little kids and the disabled too. It was disgusting. I'm seething about it.

Someone tried to help a woman in a wheelchair who was having a seizure due to the pepper spray and they got gassed too, just trying to retrieve her wheelchair.

[llashram]

28. true this

always...

[TeamPooka]

36. BLM marches shut down some highways and roads here in LA and everyone was arrested

[Brainfodder]

38. Can we send them to the border and not let them stop?