Is it just white people who object to the protests?

[malificent7]

I am white...i support the protests...several of my white friends are horrified by them. Are any non whites against them and if so why?
Aibu to feel that the incensed are scared of loosing their white priveledge or feelings of supremacy?

@Xenia

I don't think we should pick and choose which laws we break. I appreciate the suffragettes in effect were terrorists of their day but in fact the changes came about through backroom discussions not the law breaking in my view and by the economic need for women in the work place - money is often the main reason for many changes.

I hope we can somehow make sure the bill for extra public health risks caused by everyone who has not followed the law and I include in that people packing into private parties in homes as much as people no marches who did not keep distances is put on those people not on those of us who have had no state help in the pandemic and have followed the rules to the letter. (I have only had 2 walks even in 11 weeks and have not seen my grandchildren for 6 months).

Because you pay oh so many taxes and we should all be oh so grateful.

@TheSandman

I'm white. I agree that everyone should have a voice and be entitled to protest peacefully. But mindless vandalism, looting., throwing stuff at horses and defacing monuments is not the way to go about it..

Then what is the way to go about it? After decades of 'affirmative action' and, peaceful protest, and sitting on committees and writing petitions and being all Liberal and optimistic and supportive and all that other stuff... we still have a situation where in this country we elect a blatantly racist Prime Minister who thinks using language like "picaninnies with watermelon smiles" is ok and that in American policemen can murder people ON CAMERA and have people defend them.

Read some history. It's full of moments where the people said 'fuck this for a game of soldiers' and smashed stuff up. Defacing monument has been going on since prehistory. The ancient Egyptians did a great line in effacing previous regimes by obliterating names and tearing down statues. Christian armies of various factions had great fun looting and destroying each other's iconography - and those of other religions. The first thing the democracy movements in Eastern Europe was gleefully tear down statues to Lenin et al. Think those statues of Kim Jong-un are going to be there in 100 years time?

Interesting times.

Saying we should accept mindless violence because ‘that’s how it’s always been done’ is as bad as saying we should except institutional racism because that’s how it’s always been done, isn’t it? Racism doesn’t fit in with modern times, neither does symbolic, anarchic gestures of activism and antiestablishment revenge in my book.

That's a very simplistic viewpoint there @malificent7. Have you asked your friends why they are against them?

@iwilltaketwoplease

The London march and a few others have been cancelled.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/11/blm-organisers-call-off-london-event-to-prevent-clashes-with-far-right

Glad it's been cancelled. Looked like a disaster waiting to happen.

I don’t have a problem with the protests as such. People have a right to protest peacefully. I have a big problem with the violence and looting that’s going on. Also, Covid is an issue. Irresponsible to assemble in large numbers.

I am against the violence, as well as mass gatherings during a pandemic. For some people, that makes me a racist. I am surprised at the number of previously reasonably seeming people that I know who are saying that violence is justified, particularly violence against police officers. It's horrifying.

I'm glad to see a reasonable majority on this thread, as other place just seem like an echo chamber of those with certain extreme views.