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Don't fall for divide-and-rule strategy

Anyone who is talking about what % of protesters are "peaceful" i.e 99% or 99.9% or any other percent have not seriously thought about what they are arguing.

They are wilfully falling into the trap ruling class laid right for them.

Ruling class is the violent thug thats butchering people, it's while legitimacy is built on brutalising people & it doesn't have any legitimacy to talk about so called "violence".

Those who incessantly get worried about proving victims are not "violent" i.e they are not engaging in self-defense acts to stop the crimes of State are only giving legitimacy to the only form of protest thats done to save ones own conscience & if others do escalate (that definately did lot of net good based on history, tho some people were harmed) only makes those who take real risk to do some good more vulnerable & prepares them for condemnation.

It's a mistaken view IMO, even if it comes from the right place. That argument harms others & divides people into "good protestors" who don't do anything beyond getting beaten up & allow the genocidal thug to go rampant (vs) the "bad protestors" who actual take far more real risk, falling for & buttressing the ruling class divide-and-rule strategy.

If one doesn't want to be part of it, that's fine. Giving legitimacy to that ruling class argument only throws other good people under the bus if they engage in direct action.

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