re: #252 Obdicut

The people bringing up the crimes at OWS don’t actually give a shit about the crime themselves. We have tons and tons of the sort of crimes that happened at OWS happening all the time, at colleges, churches, and by the police. Anecdotes are just anecdotes.

I think that’s too sweeping a statement. People who didn’t like OWS did focus on those issues, perhaps some of them hypocritically. However, I still cherish the night that I was told that worrying about a man being shot to death in downtown Oakland was just trying to discredit OWS, and was lectured by an out-of-towner about how dangerous he’s heard the neighborhood is.

A couple of Angry Black Lady’s contributors have been pretty annoyed at the number of people who seemed to discover police brutality for the first time when OWS ran in trouble. Is it fair to say that these people ‘don’t give a shit about police brutality itself’?