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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2442782

Biden gave a speech this morning condemning the university antiwar protesters. He calls them violent and says that they are protesting illegally.

full video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXLjdZbwutY

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Let’s highlight the actual points in this article instead of taking Hexbear at their word:

emphasizing that violent protest is not protected under the law.

Biden emphasized that “peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues”

“Whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans, it’s simply wrong... In America, we respect the right and protect the rights for them to express that, but it doesn’t mean anything goes. It needs to be done without violence, without distraction, without hating and within the law.”

The president also said “no” to a separate shouted question asking whether he thinks the National Guard should intervene in the campus protests.

To summarize, he respects their right to protest and called for nonviolence without citing any side in particular. Notable that there have been violent counter-protestors.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ok, but protests need to be done “without distraction”? That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?

[–] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago

What i figure from this is that the only reasons the Democrat party doesn't win more often in the US, is that they're really, really, really bad at their jobs.

Like take Hillary for instance. She only lost because she managed to look more incompetent than Trump. Now Trump is doing his darnest that no one will be more incompetent than him, but by all the starts in the universe, genocide Joe will give him a run for his money

Stay tuned for the election with the worst presidential candidates that the US could produce. It's so embarrassing, i fear my face might freeze in the cringe.