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It is always possible to protest peacefully
Updated On: 02 June, 2020 07:30 AM IST | Mumbai | The Editorial
Transport this scenario to the country or the city, and you see how violence actually does nothing for the cause one aims to highlight. It actually derails the reason for the protest and puts the spotlight on the disruption.
Smoke rises near a demonstrator facing a row of police during a protest to call for justice for George Floyd in Minneapolis, the US. Pic/AFP
The scale of riots over the death of George Floyd in the USA have shocked the world. While earlier, there was merit in the protesters' claims about racism and message that black lives matter, now, the riots seemed to have segued into something else altogether.
Currently, it is about mindless violence, and an opportunity to vandalise public property and loot stores. Somewhere within the mayhem and madness, George Floyd and the black cause, the reminder that we still need to fight racism and discrimination in an unequal world, seem to have been lost altogether. Another factor, of course, is that this is coming in the backdrop of the COVID-19 threat and there is no social distancing or masks when these rioters congregate.
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