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In reply to the discussion: GOP attendee ejected-threw nuts at African American CNN camera woman-"This is how we feed animals" [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)There's no good reason for anybody who claims to be on the left or center-left to be dissing OWS...especially in a situation where what happened with them is completely irrelevant.
OWS is the only reason the GOP is in danger of losing. If they hadn't appeared, Romney would probably be fifteen points ahead and Obama wouldn't even be trying to win. If there'd been no OWS, nobody would be challenging corporate power in this country at all. OWS is the only Left we have.
Why use this discussion to piss on them?
And do you really want to establish moral equivalency between OWS and the Republiban?
Besides which, with all the emphasis OWS placed on nonviolence, it's extremely unlikely that anybody involved with them WAS responsible for any serious wrongdoing. It goes without saying that no actual OWS'er committed rape, for example.