cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2442782
Biden gave a speech this morning condemning the university antiwar protesters. He calls them violent and says that they are protesting illegally.
full video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXLjdZbwutY
How dare heroic protesting students stand against genocide.
Fuck off, Biden. Stop the slaughter.
“We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice”
-Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Order for who?
Order for who, motherfucker?
But have you considered that those investing in genocide are human too
Remember when Biden condemned the brutal police response against the BlackLivesMatter protest? That’s when Trump was in office and Biden was running against him. He stated there must be a right to assembly and freedom of speech. Yet when he’s put in a similar situation, it’s no different. The US is accelerating their decline to further line the pockets of the ruling class. It’s legitimately horrendous!
In moments like this, there are always those who rush in to score political points. But this isn’t a moment for politics.
Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden
He’s gonna sign that antisemitism bill isn’t he?
Let’s highlight the actual points in this article instead of taking Hexbear at their word:
emphasizing that violent protest is not protected under the law.
Biden emphasized that “peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues”
“Whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans, it’s simply wrong… In America, we respect the right and protect the rights for them to express that, but it doesn’t mean anything goes. It needs to be done without violence, without distraction, without hating and within the law.”
The president also said “no” to a separate shouted question asking whether he thinks the National Guard should intervene in the campus protests.
To summarize, he respects their right to protest and called for nonviolence without citing any side in particular. Notable that there have been violent counter-protestors.
Ok, but protests need to be done “without distraction”? That kind of defeats the purpose. doesn’t it?
I think he meant to stay on point. As in, don’t fall into antisemitism when you’re protesting Israel. Since that’s what he mentioned just before.
Conveniently they are about to declare those the same thing
As long as I’m not inconvenienced, you can keep doing your protests
Translation: We only allow “protests” that are ineffective and don’t cause any trouble for the ruling class
Also, Lemmy.world user detected, opinion rejected.
Berkeley has had an encampment on campus since April 22nd and hasn’t sent in the cops.
As always, with protests like this, the violence always begins with cops.
Violence begins with cops or fascist agitators*. So far the students have had the discipline to not retaliate, which is what the violent agitators want.
*Some of those who work forces…
Thanks, I got a Bingo. Was waiting for a lefty to quote RAtM.
Every single one of the US’s amendments came not through voting, or within the political system itself. Every single one was accompanied by violent and disruptive protest and the threat from the masses below.
Whithout citing any side in particular.
Do you really think Biden is talking about anyone other than the pro-Palistinian protesters in this context?
So you’re just making assumptions about his stance, and disregarding what he says?
Disregard what Liar in Chief Biden says? All the time. White House walks back Biden’s claim he saw children beheaded by Hamas
Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel
Washington Post Fact-Checker Gives Up on Recording Biden’s Lies
I judge him by his 50 year track record, not his words.
Name anything significant that changed with “peaceful protest” shit nothing changes when right-wing nut jobs stormed Congress.
Notable that their haven’t violent protests anywhere zionists and cops weren’t involved
“Violent protest is not protected — peaceful protest is," the president said. “It’s against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest.”
The president also said “no” to a separate shouted question asking whether he thinks the National Guard should intervene in the campus protests.
The President is condemning violent protest and destruction of property here. It is still disheartening that this hasn’t changed his stance on Israel/Palestine.
What i figure from this is that the only reasons the Democrat party doesn’t win more often in the US, is that they’re really, really, really bad at their jobs.
Like take Hillary for instance. She only lost because she managed to look more incompetent than Trump. Now Trump is doing his darnest that no one will be more incompetent than him, but by all the starts in the universe, genocide Joe will give him a run for his money
Stay tuned for the election with the worst presidential candidates that the US could produce. It’s so embarrassing, i fear my face might freeze in the cringe.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds. The protests scratched Biden.
Can you explain the meaning of this
Liberals always passively let capitalism decay into fascism, because fascism doesn’t harm the capitalist class. When forced to make a choice between organizing to overthrow the capitalist state and letting it decay into fascism, they will always choose fascism.
The Freikorps in Germany for example that hunted down communists, socialists, and trade unionists were already being trained and funded by the government even before the Nazis had ever come into power.
The self-licking boot.
Pro Palestinian protests
The president stressed that violent protests are not protected under the law
Still won’t admit these are anti genocide protests, and obviously does not care about the “counter protestors” who attacked UCLA students.
The beatings will continue until moral improves.
