> They broke a few windows and were in a place they weren't allowed to be in. How horrible
I was in New York during that time. They turned an entire swath of the city into a police zone. The dominant narrative was sympathy for the cause increasingly giving way to frustration to the destruction.
Potato potato. It’s a predictable, even necessary, response to occupying a building. Same as increasing police present if vigilante violence ramps up somewhere.
People who don’t understand that will keep trashing the causes they purport to represent.
"People do nonviolent thing which produces a violent police response so we can criticize them for being violent through their indirect cause of police violence" is wild to me.
It seems so clear that this is not about violence but instead about people who don't know their place.
I was in New York during that time. They turned an entire swath of the city into a police zone. The dominant narrative was sympathy for the cause increasingly giving way to frustration to the destruction.