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Dang, changing a flag? That's pretty scary.
I can think of a few other protests/riots that were a lot more violent and dangerous, that occured in a similar time period in the US, that seem to be all but forgotten...
Burning down city centers, looting from small businesses. Murdering people indiscriminately. It's strange what the online community has fixated on.
So you acknowledge there was a conflict inside the capital on J6 from people that came there to support Trump?
See my other reply: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/7262129
I don't understand how this comment is the gotcha you are looking for, but if you are legitimately trying to understand my view, maybe this will help.
But you said it was a peaceful protest.
Classic moving the goalpost.
How did the post move? I'm saying Jan 6 looked like a peaceful protest, from what I saw on the news.
And definitely much more peaceful than the other protests that occurred around that time (BLM, South Africa riots).
I just don't understand the vitriol around one vs the other. My point was around perception of an event through the lens of the news. I wasn't there in person; none of us were.
Everyone is fixated on Jan 6 and not talking about the bigger picture - people were generally mad all around, for lots of different reasons, and all demonstrated publicly. Some were violent, some were not.
But from what I SAW ON THE NEWS, the response to Jan 6 seems disproportionate compared to the others.
What I said in the beginning was serious: I wonder if there was legitimately differring coverage of these events. If there are A/B versions of these big events.