• dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I think most Americans didn’t have any perception change of their government when they saw that chick get shot. If anything they were shocked by what levels conservative civilians were ready to go to for their completely unfounded beliefs.

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      5 months ago

      If anything they were shocked by what levels conservative civilians were ready to go to for their completely unfounded beliefs.

      And just how far the government was willing to let them go before they took off the kid gloves and began to consider treating them even somewhat like the George Floyd protestors were treated.

      It was rather eye opening to see the dichotomy between law enforcement response between protests that started non violently protesting in the street vs an angry mob marching on Congress while they actively tried to do a peaceful transfer of power.

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      5 months ago

      I agree with you that most Americans were shocked in general or didn’t care but I think there was a significant amount of people whose perceptions were maybe changed.

      Do you think the scale would change things? If this becomes a pattern, what’s the way out?