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In reply to the discussion: What the Media Got Wrong About Last Weekends Protests in Berkeley [View all]Coventina
(27,114 posts)33. Thank you, again and again, for the work you are doing on DU
I find it exhausting trying to make the Neville Chamberlains here and elsewhere to WAKE UP!
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They are not welcome in Berkeley, arguably the most liberal community in the USA.
Expecting Rain
Aug 2017
#5
Then why did the progressive (Bernie Sanders-endorsed) Mayor of Berkeley...
Expecting Rain
Aug 2017
#4
What forms do rejections of fascism take, then? What has worked to stop its growth so far?
ancianita
Aug 2017
#6
"No face, no place" means that those who want to demonstrate on "our side" should not wear masks...
Expecting Rain
Aug 2017
#9
Of course it's not difficult to understand. You can drop the shade casting. Of course I'd support it
ancianita
Aug 2017
#10
Noam Chomsky is wrong. Silence allows all the genocides he's ever covered. I've read him,
ancianita
Aug 2017
#12
Chompsy is wrong, the Mayor of Berkeley is wrong, I'm wrong, everyone is wrong...
Expecting Rain
Aug 2017
#14
Clever by half. You don't represent everyone. Some leaders are mistaken.Chomsky is no authority on
ancianita
Aug 2017
#18
Explain, exactly, how people of good will have prevented the growth of 900+ fascist groups so far.
ancianita
Aug 2017
#13
If I defend my kids from being intimidated, bullied, even hit, is my cause just? Is my due force
ancianita
Aug 2017
#8
Thanks for your thoughts. It's judgment. Standing on the street in the face of hate, you can see
ancianita
Aug 2017
#20
Fair enough, free country. Who decides "immediate danger"? Me in my home? Or you, outside my
ancianita
Aug 2017
#25
Indeed. It's ugly. It's going to get uglier. We need to keep a chronology of these current clashes
ancianita
Aug 2017
#28
Be sure to count smashed windows and overturned newspaper boxes as "violence"
maxsolomon
Aug 2017
#31
I agree. Amplification by media are almost always the false equivalency source for these claims.
ancianita
Aug 2017
#29
It's damned sad that antifa have to check themselves with "taking a knife to a gunfight" attitude.
ancianita
Aug 2017
#30
Thank you back! I'll quote my favorite TV writer, and free speech absolutist, Jenji Kohan,
ancianita
Sep 2017
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