[ebola1717]

That went to some weird places

- Modern protests have largely been peaceful. There's a protest every week nowadays, and the only violent ones I can recall in the past few years were Baltimore and Charlottesville. Smaller scale violence does occur at these protests, but it's usually a few bad actors.

- It's a common and well documented tactic for governments to send provocateurs to delegitimize protests

- Protest organizers know better than anyone the importance of getting out the vote, and are often part of that effort. Also, the midterm elections are still a year away.

- Uh not even gonna touch your identity politics rant tbh

[guildwriter]

There have been quite a lot of protests over the last few years that have gone violent. G20, The Berkeley Milo Speech, The Free Speech Demonstrations in Berkeley, Ferguson, etc. I don't know what you call "small scale" but these events have had a substantial amount of brawling and property damage being done. Maybe not Rodney King level, but definitely noteworthy.

In many of those cases, it's far more than just a few bad actors. If you watched footage from the Milo event for example, the Antifa crowd had a lot of people out in force. Ferguson had a lot of out of towners come in to create trouble despite the locals trying to keep things calm.