[lbo-talk] Black Blocs & Other Peerennials

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Really? When the black bloc murdered a few bank workers in Greece in May
2010, the question from me was "Why doesn't the Greek CP have a militia to
enforce discipline at protests?"

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:30 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:


> There's a serious disconnect on the left, I've observed, because a lot of
> people are all like, "woah. look at that awesome uprising in Greece or
> Egypt or wherever. go kids, go! you fuck up some shit in the streets. throw
> bricks at soldiers and cops. right on!"
>
>  The kids with the masks and black clothes are out there throwing bottles
> and rocks and bricks at police and no one freaks the fuck out about
> violence! But when it's a bunch of white kids in the u.s. or u.k.... it's
> utterly hilarious that it's okay for the swarthy, downtrodden, third
> worlders to throw around bricks... gosh. wonder why that is!
>