@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:
I feel quite proud.
Now I know some people get way more upset about milkshakes being thrown than schools shot up, but it's important to point out why milkshakes are being used.
After some politicians received minor scratches from egg shell it was mooted that milkshake be used in place of egg because it can't cause any injury.
That's the difference between the left and right. The left throws milkshakes and the right whines and moans about the left throwing milkshakes. Then they go out shooting random strangers for not being American enough.
First, treat others the way you would be treated. So if you are willing to take a milkshake for the Green New Deal or whatever variation of it will be enacted in a few years after the political winds change, then go ahead and throw milkshakes; but otherwise come up with something that you would welcome happening to you as a result of someone disagreeing with your POV.
What bothers me about throwing milkshakes, street demonstrations, and basically all other forms of political communication that are watered down to acts of shouting, grunting, and violence are that we have the capacity to do better. We have the internet, which makes it entirely possible for people to communicate their full political views in a way that explains their reasons; not just punishes someone for thinking differently than they do.
Finally, no one is getting shot for their identity, national or otherwise, I hope. If you're talking about law enforcement, I can't criticize or defend any shooting without knowing the full details of the incident, and I don't trust the media to be able to present full-enough stories to accurately evaluate what happened. There are courts of law to try people for shooting, and even those often fail to reveal the full story and/or achieve justice for various reasons.
As such, societal violence is basically a war without justice. The way to stop wars is by having functional civil democratic discourse where people experience hope for the future in reasonable discussing their POV about how to achieve a good and just future. Throwing milkshakes isn't going to help democracy achieve its peace function.
