re: #160 SanFranciscoZionist

I don’t think that’s even vaguely what I’m saying.

That’s exactly what you said here

re: #20 SanFranciscoZionist

‘Inspired by’ does not mean ‘spontaneously happened because of’. That’s the issue.

I was clearly talking about the worldwide protests and what inspired them. You chose to cast doubt on that being the real cause. Of what, I don’t know.

Why is it so important for you to pretend that public outrage can’t be used by political actors for their own purposes?

That’s not was I said. I’m saying that to dismiss the real, stated reason for the protests as not actually spontaneously causing them plays into the wingnut logic that there was no protest. The attack and the protests may have been separate with the protest used as cover, or the attack may have come as an organic escalation in an society with a ridiculous amount of small arms and a recent history of using them to effect. The protests however, were about exactly what the people protesting said they were about.