As Minneapolis shooting stirs fears of state violence, several Black Panther Party members made their presence known in Philly

5 months ago by slothrop to c/politics

A group calling itself the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense showed up at a protest this week carrying weapons.
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Lydia_K 278 points 5 months ago

Hell yeah, the Black Panthers are exactly the heroes we need right now.

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Cowbee_Admirer 29 points 5 months ago

Agreed! Just to remind everyone, from Wikipedia:

The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an American far-left, Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization

Marxism-Leninism offers answers to the literal problems we're living today. Organize and read!!

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three -208 points 5 months ago

Fuck yeah! More violence! Let the blood run through the streets, may your children grow up without fathers, and your daughters carry your replacement for the front.

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ChunkMcHorkle 93 points 5 months ago

There is a whole universe of difference between Black Panthers present as an armed deterrent to defend protesters peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights, and agents provocateurs there to start shit and raise hell to light the match for the real violence against all of us to begin.

Or, to put it more simply, do you see these guys shooting? No. You do not. You see them walking calmly in open carry. That is not violent protest; it is a very strong preventive of violent protest.

And frankly you sound angrier about that than you do the reason the Black Panthers are there in the first place. Maybe go read something about the Black Panthers, starting with the above article. You might learn something. They are on the side of the community, first and foremost. That may not be your side, but it sure as fuck is mine.

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arrow74 56 points 5 months ago

They have committed no acts of violence. Arguably they are the most effective deterrent

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unexposedhazard 51 points 5 months ago

may your children grow up without fathers, and your daughters carry your replacement for the front.

At the current rate you, your wife and your children will die in a concentration camp or get executed for looking at a fed the wrong way. Better to die resisting than while licking boot.

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Tattorack 37 points 5 months ago

"Rather live oppressed than die free".

  • You, probably.
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Lydia_K 28 points 5 months ago

I'd hate to see them shoot anyone in the face, like some kind of ICE agent, that sure would be terrible. Expect that they don't. They are defensive, they are heroes, take your rhetoric of imagined violence and shove it up your ass where the real brutalization and murder of innocence lives.

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Tiger666 25 points 5 months ago

Idiot, truly.

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mrgoosmoos 16 points 5 months ago

didn't realize trying to deter people from committing violence by showing that you can defend yourself was itself committing violence

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Stern 14 points 5 months ago

Congrats on getting the most downvotes I think I've seen someone get on Lemmy in a long time.

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Zoot 13 points 5 months ago

Maybe you shouldn't have voted for this then. Weird how the one not wanting bloodshed is the one perfectly fine with what's going on.

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ayyy 11 points 5 months ago

We didn’t start the bloodshed, the Republicans are attacking us and we are merely defending our safety.

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athatet 4 points 5 months ago

Self defense is not violence.

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