Analysis Finds Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful

return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world – 574 points –
Analysis Finds Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful | Common Dreams
commondreams.org
78

You are viewing a single comment

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.

I'm just using verifiable numbers here.

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

This article say there was north of 100,000 people there which makes the number ultimately charged under one percent.

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