don't tread on us
Jun. 10th, 2025 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarpsychedelicI stand with LA.
I’m tired of the misrepresentation, the hysteria, and the outright lies spread by the media.
The city is very big, as is the county. The protests are taking place in a small section of downtown.
Non violent protesters are not the same as looters.
But agent provocateurs, those who like to stir shit up, and those with an agenda sure as heck want to make them the same and paint a picture of violence to support their bigotry.
It’s the same thing since 2020, since 2014, since OWS, since 1992, and before that, the 60s and 70s.
Most people want peace and to protest in a peaceful way. But it’s always the bad actors that ruin the movements.
It’s about optics. The most fear-based vision prevails because the privileged and the ignorant will not overcome themselves. They will not come to terms with their boredom by creating their own meaning and instead demand that life become a reality show where “the Others” must suffer as scapegoats. A dysfunctional mentality that impedes progress.
I’m tired of the misrepresentation, the hysteria, and the outright lies spread by the media.
The city is very big, as is the county. The protests are taking place in a small section of downtown.
Non violent protesters are not the same as looters.
But agent provocateurs, those who like to stir shit up, and those with an agenda sure as heck want to make them the same and paint a picture of violence to support their bigotry.
It’s the same thing since 2020, since 2014, since OWS, since 1992, and before that, the 60s and 70s.
Most people want peace and to protest in a peaceful way. But it’s always the bad actors that ruin the movements.
It’s about optics. The most fear-based vision prevails because the privileged and the ignorant will not overcome themselves. They will not come to terms with their boredom by creating their own meaning and instead demand that life become a reality show where “the Others” must suffer as scapegoats. A dysfunctional mentality that impedes progress.