Yeah, when I say violent I mean things that can easily be portrayed as violence or destruction of property. Unfortunately not many people get their news from multiple places or even read the whole article so giving people half-truths in the form of misleading titles and wording isn't too difficult.
ehhhhh... Even destruction of property I'm personally not crazy about labeling violence. When oppressors do violence against you they're not smashing windows or whatever.
I don't think burning down a Wendy's is praxis but it damn sure isn't an assassination or tear gassing or murdering cops and shit.
Yeah, the double standard is definitely unfair asf. I was mostly talking about how certain news outlets use purposefully misleading wording to make protests seem a lot worse than they are. I personally feel like a little graffiti or smashing windows is an inconvenience at most, tbh. Violence is like assault and stuff lke that, not inconveniences towards businesses that can definitely afford to fix those inconveniences.
I think it changes if there are people in the building (which is what I was imagining when you said smashing windows). Because that can cause people to feel unsafe and that could be seen as a violent act.
If there's no one there then it's just vandalism and should only be done against small businesses if they're part of the problem.
"should only be done against small businesses if they're part of the problem."
Sorry but WTF, small business are already f over by the goverment for you to say that is okey to attack them in protest
The petit bourgeois are not inherently on the side of the working class, because of their positions between the proletariat and the haute bourgeoisies, they must make their position of being allies of the working class plain and clear, or else they must be treated as allies of the bourgeois.
You've made up a specific scenario of classism rather than a myriad of other reasons to protest.
Such as equal rights and targeting businesses that have owners who refuse to serve people because of their ethnicity/gender/sexuality/marital status/religion, etc.
Depends what you're protesting. If you're campaigning for equal rights for queer people and they've been explicitly homophobic or transphobic or something then yeah, they're going to get some.
If it's just general businesses with nothing to declare, leave them alone.
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u/ArchedRobin321 Jul 28 '26
Yeah, when I say violent I mean things that can easily be portrayed as violence or destruction of property. Unfortunately not many people get their news from multiple places or even read the whole article so giving people half-truths in the form of misleading titles and wording isn't too difficult.