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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: JP on July 09, 2017, 01:30:49 PM

Title: G20 Violence
Post by: JP on July 09, 2017, 01:30:49 PM
Parts of Hamburg are burning, private property destroyed, shops destroyed and looted yet I have only seen those taking part described as protesters.

Do you reckon that is because they are lefties.
Title: Re: G20 Violence
Post by: Shaker on July 09, 2017, 01:33:53 PM
No.
Title: Re: G20 Violence
Post by: floo on July 09, 2017, 02:15:10 PM
Parts of Hamburg are burning, private property destroyed, shops destroyed and looted yet I have only seen those taking part described as protesters.

Do you reckon that is because they are lefties.

Protesting is fine, violence is not. People of all shades of political opinion can be violent.
Title: Re: G20 Violence
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on July 09, 2017, 02:46:15 PM
Parts of Hamburg are burning, private property destroyed, shops destroyed and looted yet I have only seen those taking part described as protesters.

Do you reckon that is because they are lefties.
Looting makes a mockery of any protest against unjustified personal acquisition.
Title: Re: G20 Violence
Post by: ad_orientem on July 09, 2017, 04:54:37 PM
They riot against the neo-liberal elite but unwittingly do their work.
Title: Re: G20 Violence
Post by: Rhiannon on July 09, 2017, 05:24:26 PM
Parts of Hamburg are burning, private property destroyed, shops destroyed and looted yet I have only seen those taking part described as protesters.

Do you reckon that is because they are lefties.

People who destroy and loot properly are called 'criminals'. Not 'lefties' or 'protestors'. Failure to do so on the part of the media is down to shit journalism.
Title: Re: G20 Violence
Post by: floo on July 09, 2017, 05:48:35 PM
People who destroy and loot properly are called 'criminals'. Not 'lefties' or 'protestors'. Failure to do so on the part of the media is down to shit journalism.

I agree.
Title: Re: G20 Violence
Post by: ProfessorDavey on July 09, 2017, 06:44:32 PM
Parts of Hamburg are burning, private property destroyed, shops destroyed and looted yet I have only seen those taking part described as protesters.

Do you reckon that is because they are lefties.
Why do you feel it necessary to mention private property.

Is it somehow worse, in your mind, if private property gets destroyed rather than publicly owned property.

To my mind both are equally bad.
Title: Re: G20 Violence
Post by: Shaker on July 09, 2017, 06:45:29 PM
They riot against the neo-liberal elite but unwittingly do their work.
How?
Title: Re: G20 Violence
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 10, 2017, 01:29:00 AM
Parts of Hamburg are burning, private property destroyed, shops destroyed and looted yet I have only seen those taking part described as protesters.

Do you reckon that is because they are lefties.

Possibly the German version of the SWP will try to capitalise (pun intended) on this, but no, it's just criminals with perhaps a few anarchist types tagging along.
Title: Re: G20 Violence
Post by: ad_orientem on July 10, 2017, 05:42:43 AM
How?

1. Create chaos so they can retreat further into their bubble.

There's a whole lot more.