{"id":16864,"date":"2020-08-03T01:15:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T08:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16864"},"modified":"2020-08-03T01:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T08:15:38","slug":"institutional-privilege-of-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/08\/03\/institutional-privilege-of-the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutional Privilege of the Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One of the core articles of faith in #BlackLivesMatter is that the police are agents of systemic racism who exist only to oppress\u2014because not helping a protesters\/revolutionaries control where people can travel and attacking cars that don\u2019t knuckle under to the protesters\/revolutionaries is now oppression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In a twitter thread, that left the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1Lu8U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protesting twit<\/a> literally shaking, a woman claimed to be oppressed and tried to explain how that not being able to control where people can travel and attacking cars that don\u2019t knuckle under to the protesters\/revolutionaries makes the police and innocent motorists the oppressors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That twitter thread will now be fisked.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14179\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14179\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14179\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zoot-dingo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zoot-dingo.png 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zoot-dingo-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fisking! A fisking!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Videos are available at the <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1287229573659320322.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thread Reader<\/a> collection of the tweets.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLet me speak on what happened in Georgetown tonight. #DCprotest #georgetownkaren<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTonight [<strong>REDACTED<\/strong>] led a siren\/noise pollution protest where we blocked off streets in Georgetown. The police presence was heavy. As we blocked off streets we demanded that people turn around. This was a minor inconvenience for this affluent white neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Controlling the streets and telling people turn around <em>with the expectation that that will happen<\/em> is a demonstration of <em>actual<\/em> \u201cinstitutional power\u201d and an expectation of <em>actual<\/em> \u201cinstitutional privilege\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs we blocked streets, certain drivers got annoyed and attempted to maneuver their way around us. This particular white woman tried to cut through a gas station. Me and a couple other protestors stood in front of her car and demanded she turn around. Instead she steps on the gas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn the video above, she had already attempted to run us over multiple times and I had moved from the front of the car to the side and was banging on her window screaming at her to stop. Throughout this whole thing, the cops are doing nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Surrounding and harassing someone just because they won\u2019t blindly obey your illegal demands doesn\u2019t put you in the right. In fact, it makes <em>you<\/em> the baddie.\u00a0\u00a0 The woman in the car was clearly trying to get away from these aggressive lunatics. It must have been terrifying for the woman in the car.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;BTW, the term for someone who drives through a corner gas station to avoid stopping at the intersection is known as an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/groovyhistory.com\/sniglets-list-rich-hall-words-dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essoasso<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFinally cops come but instead of arresting this woman, or asking for her ID, registration, etc., they turn towards us and begin pushing us. We are BEGGING them to arrest this woman who just tried to run over protestors repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPolice continue to REFUSE to arrest this white woman, citing that since she stayed on the scene (only because we blocked her from leaving) she did not have \u201cintent\u201d and could not be charged nor arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s because you and your comrades were the baddies who instigated the situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Oh, the irony of anti-police protesters demanding that the police \u201cdo their job\u201d and arrest someone!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Spoiler: If we get rid of the cops people who are confronted by revolutionary lunatics won\u2019t wait patiently for the non-existent police to show up; they will hit the gas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAfter about 40 minutes, police FINALLY ask for her ID and she claims she is too scared to give it to them because protestors \u2018might take it\u2019. In the meantime myself and other witnesses give our information to officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A legitimate concern.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAfter all this time of pushing protestors and protecting this violent white woman, the MPD LET HER DRIVE HOME. Shoving and grabbing protestors who tried to stop her. Police treated us like threats, when she was clearly dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That woman in the car didn\u2019t create this situation, <em>you<\/em> and your comrades did. The fact that no one was driven over and killed\/needed an ambulance in this little account does indeed show that the woman in the car not only had no ill intent, but that she showed amazing calm while surrounded by screaming violent lunatics.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am exhausted. My hands are shaking. I am angry. As the nation returns to complacency, we are still out here. We are still being killed. We are still being brutalized. For every second our nation forget about us we get angrier. WE DESERVE MORE. WE NEED MORE.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You need to get off the road and harassing innocent people who just want to get from point A to point B.<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Do note, also, the clear lack of protesters being killed by the police <em>that the protesters were begging to \u201cdo their job\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPolice didn\u2019t do shit. They have never done shit. Will never do shit. And will never BE shit. Fuck the police. This is a hate crime. Find this woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLemme clarify, police have always done the WRONG SHIT. Still will never be shit. ACAB.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They intervened to protect that lady from you. But perhaps the police <em>should<\/em> do their jobs and arrest <em>you<\/em> and your comrades for pulling this s**t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And yes, this woman really does think that people not blindly obeying her orders is a \u201chate crime\u201d. \u00a0 So, just remind me who <em>really<\/em> has assumed themselves to have \u201cinstitutional privilege\u201d?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFollow [<strong>REDACTED<\/strong>] for more protest information, there is another protest tomorrow at 6:30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cGoodnight I need to self care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is exactly why we need to defund MPD. MPD does not protect citizens utilizing their right to protest, they protect a woman who tried to run over protestors. Police DON\u2019T keep us safe. The only thing police are good at is brutalizing Black people. DEFUND MPD.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The only brutality here was the clear threat of violence against the woman in the car.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The clear presumption of \u201cinstitutional privilege\u201d and exercise of \u201cinstitutional power\u201d was completely in the hands of the protestors\/revolutionaries, and they expect to be obeyed in their new woke world order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/woman-on-car.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/woman-on-car.png 685w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/woman-on-car-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Institutional Privilege of the Revolution\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"One of the core articles of faith in #BlackLivesMatter is that the police are agents of systemic racism who exist only to oppress\u2014because not helping a protesters\/revolutionaries control where people can travel and attacking cars that don\u2019t knuckle under to the protesters\/revolutionaries is now oppression.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/woman-on-car.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One of the core articles of faith in #BlackLivesMatter is that the police are agents of systemic racism who exist only to oppress\u2014because not helping a protesters\/revolutionaries control where people can travel and attacking cars that don\u2019t knuckle under to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/08\/03\/institutional-privilege-of-the-revolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[22,20,48],"class_list":["post-16864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-fail","tag-occupy","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16866,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions\/16866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}