A crossed out graphic. The original graphic is titled the sit down wave and it encourages protestors to sit down silently together if violence breaks out. There's a red 'x' over this image and the added words, the police don't care and will arrest you anyway
Text A lot of people who've been to protests, especially in the last several years, are saying sitting down when things start to get chaotic are bad for several reasons.
1) Tear gas is a powder and settles more concentrated on the ground.
2) If violence breaks and half of you are sitting and the other half start running, you can get trampled.
3) The police will arrest you anyway.
4) The alarm has already been sounded but people are being effing kidnapped and sent to prisons in countries they're not even from. It sounds like something Nazis do cause it is something Nazis do and fighting fascism by being nice with it doesn't work.
Text: Last thought:
There is a time for peace. And there's a time for war. There's a time to stand with your fellow man and not let them be brutalized.
From Veterans for Peace. Photo of a Protestor from a sit in being
Why the sit down graphic is bad.
I thought everybody had heard by now but someone on my FB posted it unironically today. Some people still unaware.
And listen, that's ok, we're out here doing our best to get you up to speed. We want protestors to be safe and not trampled.
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