At 11:37 PM 2/7/2012, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
>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!
> >
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