re: #280 Obdicut

Do you think that sentence is factually inaccurate?

The Civil Rights Marchers got savagely beaten, both by the police and vigilantes. They got murdered. They got fired from their jobs. They got jailed in large numbers. This was possibly because of the massive amount of racism that was perfectly acceptable in the country at this time.

This is a list of those who died.

[Link: www.splcenter.org…]

I am asking we respect the memory of the dead, and the conditions that they fought for. Which includes the better treatment that the Occupy people are experiencing.

And sadly, if the Occupy movement was mainly black people, I think that they’d be treated worse, even today.

It is not factually inaccurate, nor did I say it was. You are redirecting the discussion off the topic from which I began.

I used a quote from a leader of a movement against injustice to comment on the principle of disliking unrest. You objected because the members of OWS haven’t for the most part suffered as the participants in the prior movement.

What message am I to take? Were you digressing off the point, and so I should simply have ignored you? Or was the point that this movement isn’t as important - to which assumption I was objecting.