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Also NPR: Saying the BLM protests involved riots or looting is "misleading", because most of them were peaceful [1]. (570 riots over the course of 3 months bre

Also NPR: Saying the BLM protests involved riots or looting is "misleading", because most of them were peaceful [1]. (570 riots over the course of 3 months breaks down to 190 riots a month. That’s 47 riots a week or 7 riots a day. See if they are so willing to ignore violence of a cause they dislike.) Also also NPR regarding the Hunter Biden laptop: We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste our listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions [2] Unlike the Pence statement on riots, which did rise to the level of significance that NPR considers worthy of reporting. So forgive me if I take their word on anything with a grain of salt. [1] https://apps.npr.org/liveblogs/20201007-debate/#overwhelming-majority-of-racial-justice-92 https://apps.npr.org/liveblogs/20201007-debate/#overwhelming... [2] https://twitter.com/NPRpubliceditor/status/1319281101223940096 https://twitter.com/NPRpubliceditor/status/13192811012239400...

krapp 4y ago
That article doesn't mention 570 riots, it mentions "570 (demonstrations, out of 10,600) involved protesters engaged in violence," and clearly not every instance in which at least a single protestor engaged in violence is a riot. And the source for the claim that most demonstrations were peaceful wasn't NPR but US Crisis Monitor, linked here[0], where you can clearly tell from the data that, yes, the vast majority were peaceful. And your claim of "7 riots a day" is such an obvious bad faith manipulation that I'm actually insulted you expect it to be taken seriously. If you're going to purposely misrepresent a source to that degree, you shouldn't link to the evidence that easily exposes your falsehoods. I know you didn't put a lot of effort in but at least respect the effort you did put in. [0]https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/ https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-vi...

krapp 4y ago

That article doesn't mention 570 riots, it mentions "570 (demonstrations, out of 10,600) involved protesters engaged in violence," and clearly not every instance in which at least a single protestor engaged in violence is a riot. And the source for the claim that most demonstrations were peaceful wasn't NPR but US Crisis Monitor, linked here[0], where you can clearly tell from the data that, yes, the vast majority were peaceful. And your claim of "7 riots a day" is such an obvious bad faith manipulation that I'm actually insulted you expect it to be taken seriously. If you're going to purposely misrepresent a source to that degree, you shouldn't link to the evidence that easily exposes your falsehoods. I know you didn't put a lot of effort in but at least respect the effort you did put in. [0]https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/ https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-vi...