Your post is incomplete - you feel black bloc tactics rob anarchism or legitimacy. You also note that black bloc protesters have not executed anyone.
So... what's your point? Those two observations are entirely unrelated, unless you're trying to use one to justify the other and set up a straw man.
Yeah, ok, BART cops suck and kill people without justification (that's arguable, but let's run with that for now). What part of that justifies the rampaging, destructive "protests" we've seen out of BART/MUNI as of late? Hooliganism is okay because cops are assholes?
I miss the days when the word "protester" didn't conjure up images of hoodied and masked people smashing windows and burning cars. If protesting is to remain a legitimate method of civil discourse and disobedience, black bloc people and tactics must be opposed at every level, no matter how heinous the crime they supposedly "protest" against. From a pragmatist's perspective - giving black bloc types any quarter is public opinion suicide.
I'm sorry. I'll try to be more clear. You said There is not a single group I despise more than your average black bloc "anarchist protester". I feel that murderers are more deserving of contempt than children who destroy property.
That reeks of straw man to me - murderers aren't a group, they do not represent themselves as such, or anything even remotely close to it. They don't issue statements, they don't have meetings, and they certainly do not descend upon anything as a group.
Until there's a "SF Murder Collective" that descends in terror across the city, I will stand by my opinion that, as a group, black bloc "anarchists" are by far my most despised.
They purport to stand against oppressors, but in reality they get nothing of the sort done, and instead they play directly into the agenda of heavy-handed policing by justifying police reactions in the court of public opinion.
So... what's your point? Those two observations are entirely unrelated, unless you're trying to use one to justify the other and set up a straw man.
Yeah, ok, BART cops suck and kill people without justification (that's arguable, but let's run with that for now). What part of that justifies the rampaging, destructive "protests" we've seen out of BART/MUNI as of late? Hooliganism is okay because cops are assholes?
I miss the days when the word "protester" didn't conjure up images of hoodied and masked people smashing windows and burning cars. If protesting is to remain a legitimate method of civil discourse and disobedience, black bloc people and tactics must be opposed at every level, no matter how heinous the crime they supposedly "protest" against. From a pragmatist's perspective - giving black bloc types any quarter is public opinion suicide.