Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoThe French know how to protestslrpnk.netexternal-linkmessage-square149linkfedilinkarrow-up11.21Karrow-down115
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minus-squareDozzi92@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down1·3 days agoAmerican version: Protesting is a right, taught in school. Grab family, go to protest. Protest turns violent because of hidden cops. Mom gets shot. Dad loses job. Family loses house. Die.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45arrow-down1·3 days agoMy US experience: Protesting it taught in school. Peaceful protesting at school results in being expelled.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 days ago“Protesting is a right and everything great we have comes from it, but you will be tear gassed and condemned if you try”
minus-squareTronBronson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days ago2028 you get black bagged by ICE for the crime of thinking about planning a protest
minus-squareHerbal Gamer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoAs opposed to the good old days when the CIA and FBI would do the black-bagging.
minus-squareTronBronson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agono, the CIA would hype you up to do a terrorism and then turn you into the FBI so they can get the news story
minus-squareLushed_Lungfish@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoWhich is so odd. America got started because of a protest.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoI wasn’t aware that anything was taught in US schools.
American version:
Protesting is a right, taught in school.
Grab family, go to protest.
Protest turns violent because of hidden cops. Mom gets shot. Dad loses job. Family loses house.
Die.
My US experience:
Protesting it taught in school.
Peaceful protesting at school results in being expelled.
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“Protesting is a right and everything great we have comes from it, but you will be tear gassed and condemned if you try”
2028 you get black bagged by ICE for the crime of thinking about planning a protest
As opposed to the good old days when the CIA and FBI would do the black-bagging.
no, the CIA would hype you up to do a terrorism and then turn you into the FBI so they can get the news story
Which is so odd. America got started because of a protest.
I wasn’t aware that anything was taught in US schools.