• neonred@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    People and parents bringing their children to such a kind of demonstration are willingly endangering them. Why do they bring their kids? It is irresponsible and in bad faith. Maybe because they know they can later pull the “oh noes, they hurt my poor child” card.

    • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      It’s irresponsible for the police to abuse their power and use pepper spray on children at a peaceful protest.

      Going outside has a risk of getting hit by a car. So now it’s irresponsible to take your kids outside? It’s not normal to get hit by a car, but it’s also not normal for police to use violence on non-violent protes… Oh wait, yes that indeed IS normal now, depending on the religion, ethnicity, political statement of the protesters.

      Imo it’s irresponsible to have kids in the first place by the way, it’s not irresponsible though to bring your kids to a peaceful protest as no one expect police to pepper spray your kids without cause. Or at least, that is how it should be. When you claim it’s irresponsible to bring your kids because you can expect police to use violence without cause, to abuse their power even though you are there because of your constitutional right, you acknowledge the police violence without condemning it.

      You are victim blaming.

    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      It was a peaceful protest. The only danger was from the -checks notes- boys in blue sworn to protect them? That CANT be right.

    • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      Children came to support a peaceful rally, they weren’t in danger until the police showed up.

      There are many young people who care about things and want to help, many are refugees themselves and have just as much of a right to be there as anyone else. People are there to share stories, raise money for relief funds and to show our goddamn solidarity for people being murdered in their homes.

      These rallies have been running for months now and no one at them has caused any issues, but the cops sure fucking have.

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      9 days ago

      What’s the age limit when a child is allowed to learn from an adult’s example about peaceful activism

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          7 days ago

          Police violence is something different then peaceful protesting. It turns into non-peaceful as soon as the police starts to use force without a proper cause. It’s called “abuse of power”. Cops love to get violent, especially when the protesters do not (so they won’t hit back).

        • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          9 days ago

          Yes, it was completely peaceful as it has been for the past 30 something weeks that these rallies have been held.

          If you’ve ever been to a demonstration you’d understand that all the police do is show up and cause violence. No one needed protecting from us, we walked down a goddamn street. Last time I checked that wasn’t exactly a violent act. But people sure needed protecting from the police…

        • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          “If it was peaceful, why did the police show up?”

          “If you were innocent, then why were you arrested?”

          Bad arguments are bad.