Side note, it is well documented that the cops began pepperspraying people *hours* before the first window was (righteously) smashed.

When you state this myth that anarchists provoked the police into doing violence, you are lending credence to the false idea that the police need that excuse.

I can't imagine why someone would post divisive nonsense like this. If you're blaming anarchists for the response of the cops, you shouldn't bother posting about labor history.

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I don’t think you understand what you’re talking about. You are hallucinating if you think the police wouldn’t have beat people “if not for the anarchists”. Your entire theory here is completely nonsensical

It's easy to say "violence is never the answer," if you've never had to fight for your life.

causing mass death, displacement, loss, and suffering, were the anarchists not wrong in being a violent against a system that has enacted such violence on others?

At what point are we permitted to defend ourselves?

Really?

You don't see a mismatch between your post and the picture?

If the anarchists were the violent ones, why were the cops violent against seated protesters? Were the cops justified in attacking the ones not responsible for the violence?

And decades later, with climate change literally

Imagine being a historian and believing that cops pepper spraying people sitting in the street is the fault of anarchists.

Did the SPD write this post for you?

“Historian.” Had the “historian” done *any* research, he would know that anarchists were an integral & key part of the ecosystem of the anti-globalization movement, in Seattle & beyond. This is an embarassing thing to post.

Btw, I know a thing or two about the subject:

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You’re a fucking liar. The cops were beating and attacking people before this. The “anarchists” did not cause this response. I seriously think you need to understand how violent policing is, especially the Seattle police, and you also need to understand what anarchism is.

The capitalists would have capitulated to our demands if the anarchists didn’t break that starbucks window! Please, mr. Capitalists! We love you! We just want a small piece of the pie!

Taking you at your word that you are a historian @erikloomis.bsky.social, you must know that your account of the causal chain of events is false—which means that you know that you are willfully misleading people about what happened and why it happened, rather than helping them to learn from history.

In the linked zine, you can read the analysis of the WTO protests that RAND corporation later republished. If it's good enough for the capitalist ruling class, it's good enough for us.

The screenshots here show how false—if not mendacious—your account is.

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Your account is outright dishonest.

First—anarchists participated in constructing the coalitions between labor, environmentalists, and other activists.

More egregiously—the police violence began many hours before the black bloc. You are misrepresenting the causal chain of events. Citations below.