Violence erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles after pro-Israeli counter-demonstrators attacked a pro-Palestinian campus encampment. Bubbling tensions on the campus boiled over following the alleged breach of a “buffer zone” between the rival groups.

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    6 months ago

    That’s the term. They were counter-protesting the pro-Palestinian protesters. Sorry, what’s the problem?

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      6 months ago

      Charging sleeping people with baseball bats isn’t normally considered a form of protest. Masked attackers would be a more neutral description.

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        6 months ago

        If you had read past “counter-protesters”, it goes on to say, “…attack pro-Palestinian camp”

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          6 months ago

          Yep, that was one of the sentences that showed how silly it is to describe attackers as protesters but there are plenty more.

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            6 months ago

            They were there counter-protesting and then attacked the pro-palenstine protesters. Why do you object to an accurate description of the events?

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              It seems like you’re having a difficult time understanding this, maybe I can help. If another group of people showed up, and they had signs, and maybe bullhorns, and they started protesting the opposite of what the original people were protesting, they would be counter-protesting. Some heckling could even be involved.

              When they show up wearing masks and wielding baseball bats, they are not counter-protestors. They are violent criminals. They did not show up to protest. They showed up to insight violence.

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              6 months ago

              Protestors: Less filling!

              Counter Protestors: Taste great!

              not

              Protestors: Stop funding genocide, my college!

              Counter Protestors: We’re going to beat you with bats while you sleep!

              you disingenuous, festering carbuncle.