Protesters "Protesting"

Huh? I'm not putting down anything. I'm just expressing some incredulity.
It takes some effort to sort the wheat from the chaff in the media but it is important to do so.

On this issue I still have an open mind in that while I think it unlikely that people would be paid $5,000 per month to protest, I would change my mind if it turns out to be true. Perhaps the OP can provide more information that will shine a light on whether there is real substance to this story. So far I have been able to do so but I may be looking in the wrong places.

As someone from the other side of the world I'm not at all concerned about US politics as such. We have our own issues to be concerned about but that doesn't prevent me from taking an interest in social issues in the US, or the UK or in places like Ireland and Turkey etc. In every situation I prefer to respond to true accounts of events and sometimes I sense that the truth is being well and truly distorted. That's when I get really interested.
 

Bob and I have managed to have cordial conversations in the past, even though we see the world of politics differently.
In this case I am not seeing politics. I think I see misrepresentation of events and from what I have read, including frequent use of the terms "blacks" and "whites", I think the motivation is racial prejudice. I don't think this can be sheeted home to politics although it certainly does sometimes express itself politically.

Reading the above, I don't seem to be expressing my thoughts very clearly so I'll quit while I'm behind.
 

Dame Warrigal said:
Bob and I have managed to have cordial conversations in the past, even though we see the world of politics differently.
In this case I am not seeing politics. I think I see misrepresentation of events and from what I have read, including frequent use of the terms "blacks" and "whites", I think the motivation is racial prejudice. I don't think this can be sheeted home to politics although it certainly does sometimes express itself politically.

Reading the above, I don't seem to be expressing my thoughts very clearly so I'll quit while I'm behind.
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Thanks Warrigal. That time frame was for years and on a really friendly forum from Australia. Surely do miss that forum since it was closed.
 
Bob, you'll be pleased to hear that Joycy is alive and well and we are still sparring partners, although over time we are finding that we have much more in common than was first apparent.
 
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