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Viral TikTok Exposes Double Standard in How Protesters Are Treated (Original Post) tecelote Apr 2020 OP
the news loves the covidiots, they get plenty of coverage and are allowed to speak. rampartc Apr 2020 #1
K&R ck4829 Apr 2020 #2
Yes, There is a Big Difference McKim Apr 2020 #3
You forgot to burn something... TomVilmer Apr 2020 #7
Any questions? 2naSalit Apr 2020 #4
Kick dalton99a Apr 2020 #5
Big kick! SergeStorms Apr 2020 #6
Because cops and local governments feel they can bully peaceful unarmed protesters tikka Apr 2020 #8

rampartc

(5,403 posts)
1. the news loves the covidiots, they get plenty of coverage and are allowed to speak.
Sun Apr 26, 2020, 06:21 AM
Apr 2020

compare to the pipeline protesters, the wisconsin protesters, or the occupy movement, totally ignored or portrayed as ignorant vandals who "don't know what they want."

McKim

(2,412 posts)
3. Yes, There is a Big Difference
Sun Apr 26, 2020, 08:20 AM
Apr 2020

Just before The War on Iraq we helped organize a Peace Demonstration with interfaith partners in Portland Oregon. We had 40,000 people in the streets for a peaceful event and we got less than two minutes coverage and only on a local TV station. If 25 idiots show up at a state capital with confederate flags, it’s all over the news 24/7. Yes, there is a difference! Who is being served here?

TomVilmer

(1,832 posts)
7. You forgot to burn something...
Sun Apr 26, 2020, 12:26 PM
Apr 2020

... and wave guns around.

But yes, this is the eternal question. How to to give the media an image they will cover, and still getting the real and important message through.

I was part of an environment group who succeed quite well in getting our message out, by changing the script all the time. If we were carrying signs like a normal demonstration, we did it while swimming in a river. We had good artists and poets, so every new stunt could be more interesting and colorful. So the editors started to send their art critics to write about our shows, which were the usual political statements but dressed up into great images for them...


SergeStorms

(19,192 posts)
6. Big kick!
Sun Apr 26, 2020, 11:17 AM
Apr 2020

Double standards abound in "the land of the free". And a handful of ignorant rubes get more attention than hundreds of Native Americans trying to protect the land on which they live.

tikka

(762 posts)
8. Because cops and local governments feel they can bully peaceful unarmed protesters
Sun Apr 26, 2020, 04:36 PM
Apr 2020

They don't want to start a confrontation with these armed paranoid white nutjobs. Of course, these nut jobs are looking for a confrontation to bolster their argument that they are fighting for their freedom. If you look at these protests, you have to wonder why they are armed. Do guns really help make their point? I guess they must since the MSM can't seem to give them enough coverage.

Officials did feel differently about armed black in the 60's. Just another example of white privilege.

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