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Let’s stop moralizing

The uncomfortable pages of American History

ganpy
6 min readJun 1, 2020
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So it begins.
The moralizing.

“Oh, Why is it hard to comply with the police rules?”

They say.

The same people who thought it was tyranny when the government asked them to stay home just for a few weeks in order to minimize the community spread of a global pandemic. They couldn’t wait for their haircuts. They didn’t want to wear masks to Costco. So they armed themselves and pushed the police away to walk into state capitols to threaten the lawmakers. The police watched them peacefully.

“Oh, Can’t you peacefully protest?”

They say.

The same people who threw a fit and melted down on all fours when Colin Kapernick peacefully took a knee. This included VP Mike Pence, who spent millions of tax dollars to watch an NFL game only to walk out within a few minutes just because a player peacefully protested by taking a knee.

“Oh, you know violence never works during protests..”

They say.

The same people who have never experienced well co-ordinated state sponsored police gangsterism. Those who have no experince with any of this want to moralize and lecture those who have on how to behave in…

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Entrepreneur, Author of "TEXIT - A Star Alone" (thriller) and short stories, Moody writer writing "stuff". Politics, Movies, Music, Sports, Satire, Food, etc.

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