Analysis Finds Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful | Common Dreams
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"If someone is speaking more about 'violent encampments' than they are about violent genocide of the Palestinians, they have a problem reflective of deep and dangerous biases," said one supporter.
    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      411·
      5 months ago

      Sorry… you think that the only people who were violent were the ones who got charged?

      That’s weird, because that’s not how it usually works.

        • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
          241·
          5 months ago

          And trying to conflate a percentage of protests with a percentage of people at one particular protest. The two are not comparable.

            • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
              12·
              5 months ago

              A percentage is a ratio of two numbers, in this case you are trying to compare

              ^People who engaged in violence and were convicted at one protest^/~People who were at that protest~

              with

              ^Number of protest events that became violent^/~Number of protest events for this cause~

              To compare that you will have to wait a few years for all of the court cases to wind down. Hope that helps.

              EDIT: Format

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      181·
      5 months ago

      sorry but that’s not a fair analysis of the data put forward by ACLED here. they are counting demonstrations not demonstrators. and they are most certainly not couning charges so no clue where you got that.

      here are some similar, though admittedly not directly parallel, statistics (published jan 2022):

      • 6.8% of pro-Trump demonstrations (112 of 1,646) between January 2020 and November 2021 were armed compared to 1.5% of all other demonstrations (501 of 33,298).
      • The percentage of armed pro-Trump demonstrations increased last year. In 2021, 8.8% of pro-Trump demonstrations were armed (32 of 364) compared to 6.2% in 2020 (80 of 1,282).