• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Politically motivated is the question. I think it’s often economically or racially motivated, and hopefully motivated by illegal actions, but not usually politically motivated.

    • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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      1 year ago

      To be fair, what is and isn’t legal is a political issue, so violence used to enforce laws is definitionally political violence. I think the more important issue is whether that violence is justified, which it is sometimes but often is not (this goes for the police in a large number of nations, not just the United States).