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Righteousness and rage collide in Berkeley
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 5, 2017 | Steve Kettmann

Posted on 02/06/2017 5:42:18 PM PST by artichokegrower

To get a handle on the real problem with the recent Berkeley protest against an extremist provocateur booked to speak on the UC campus, it helps to start with the dirty secret that violent street protest, like the incipient fascism we’re seeing unfold in the Trump era, feels good, really good, to some people. That is why this year’s project of coming together as a unified, forceful and peaceful mass opposition is such a challenge, but one that simply has to prevail to guard against our democratic traditions being badly undermined.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: berkeley; milo
Personally, if we find out later that at least some of the protesters were paid right-wing agitators brought in to discredit a potent protest, I won’t be at all surprised, but we will probably never know that for sure.


False news!

1 posted on 02/06/2017 5:42:18 PM PST by artichokegrower
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by Steve Kettmann

FWIW: Ketman was Persian for taqiya.

2 posted on 02/06/2017 5:47:58 PM PST by x
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Milo Yiannopolous = an extremist provocateur?


3 posted on 02/06/2017 5:49:01 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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“the dirty secret that violent street protest, like the incipient fascism we’re seeing unfold in the Trump era, feels good, really good, to some people”

When the working man has had enough and gets violent back it ain’t gonna feel good, really good, to some people. Some people are going to get a beat down.


4 posted on 02/06/2017 5:50:30 PM PST by artichokegrower
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The Cornholicle is upset because their False Flag shill Fake News misdirection does not work anymore.


5 posted on 02/06/2017 5:55:39 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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sfchronicle-BLOG...


6 posted on 02/06/2017 5:59:06 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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The new talking points for all violence committed by democrats is that it’s not democrats. It’s “paid” alt-right agitators.


7 posted on 02/06/2017 6:10:27 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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I don’t see that it;s collision.

Righteousness is a form of rage if you’re being righteous from your own mind (as many of these protesters are) and not righteous in the God sense through His word and transformation.


8 posted on 02/06/2017 6:11:51 PM PST by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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I notice this San Francisco article didn’t mention that Milo is homosexual. Don’t want any other Frisco homosexuals to check out what Milo actually says.


9 posted on 02/06/2017 8:33:51 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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Figures that Nazi Party house organ The San Francisco Comical would lie about the protests violent riots.
10 posted on 02/06/2017 8:34:28 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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