andyt
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:01 am
Nah, you just don't hear about the non-violent ones, or they don't stick in your mind, unless they are really large. In Vancouver there's lots of little protests where they walk down the street for a couple of klicks or so. Can't really recall he last violent one we had.
Basically is comes down to if both sides have protest likely members. Women's, native, issues, nobody is going to come out against that. Even economic ones. Issues that would get people fired up would be abortion, Isreael/Palestine, protests seen as racist such as this one. And of course the big anti-government ones, as we've seen.
Oh, and Stanley cup protests, with protester showing how pissed off they are with how good they have it and have nothing to protest about.
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It just takes one person to cross over the line of being reasonable and another person to react and boom! The issue behind the reason for the protest gets overshadowed by the violence that results.
