freeman3
JC, he's an eyewitness. Unless you have a basis to question his veracity...I think I would ease up a bit
I sure as heck would not feel the need to justify what I saw with my own two eyes....you don't have to accept it as gospel, but someone says they were actually there I think you got to back off a bit.
I asked him for corroborating evidence to back up his eyewitness accounts...
He hasn't delivered any. All he did was get cute...
Eye Witness accounts are unreliable.
For instance:
Some 75% of the wrongful convictions for rape and murder, including a number that led to people being scheduled for execution, were based on eyewitness testimony.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/ ... ists-weighand there's eye witness testimony like this:
“Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering. D.J.Trump”
All Dag has to do is back up his eye witness testimony with something that corroborates him.... Thats not a insult. Its a statement of doubt..
BLM aren't a pure and disciplined protest movement... Its not a regimented and trained group. The rage and anger that precipitates the protests are often going to boil over.
I don't doubt that.
However I think that when critics decide that when protesters go over the line that it invalidates their purpose. Invalidates their complaint and their goals.
In fact, that seems to be the purpose of the criticism. To distract from the issue and the content of the protest. (See Trump and kneeling.)
If they can't organize their protests in a way that inconveniences no one, that "respects" every institution, then their cause isn't worth examining...
The Freedom riders disrupted transportation. Kings marches disrupted traffic. Viet Nam War protesters occasionally transgressed and some of them became violent... At the time those who opposed them had the same kinds of righteous criticisms. With the same intent.
But the Freedom riders, King and the Viet Nam protesters still managed to over come the criticism of their efforts. Both the legitimate, the hyperbolic and the straight out lies...
Because eventually the media and people focused on the issue.
I think that is harder today with the media silos created since the 80's... But still possible.
And part of that comes with expressing healthy skepticism about unsupported ad uncorroborated claims.