Justifying Riots

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Also human lives have higher value than property, end story.
I don't disagree, but the original tweet I linked talked about burning down white neighborhoods and stores, can we say that such widespread destruction to property wouldn't cause physical harm to innocent lives? Can we say that about the destruction we're seeing now?

No, corporations who care more about profit margins above all else. I'm talking about the penny pinching that squeezes every last dime out of both employees and customers so that execs can horde their wealth while the rest of the country continues to fall into disarray. I don't really think I need to spell it out for you further, you should know what I'm talking about.
If it's about executive pay and profits, I covered this to an extent with E but stopped because I didn't want to derail the thread further. I can continue such discussion with you elsewhere if you'd like though.


 
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We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty
and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.."
I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
The thing about it is that once the destruction starts, you don't have a lot of control over it. Like Desty said, it's just collateral unfortunately.


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And yet racial inequality and systematic discrimination is still a pervasive and ingrained problem that hasn't dissappeared.

No one here is positing the notion that innocent lives need to be ruined to see any significant change, at least not seriously. But this instant jump to riots and looting being the main focus of concern, when it's actually a symptom of the rotten system, is a serious misalignment of where the priorities should be.
The point is not to encourage the violence by making it out to be a necessary evil to create change within a rotten system.

If you don't believe innocent lives need ruining, then I don't understand how you can say that "the system makes it necessary."
When you have a culture so rife with inequality and an infrastructure so utterly disinterested in making any sort of meaningful systemic change then yes, civil disorder is an inevitability at that point. That's what I'm referring to when I say the system makes it necessary.

There's a stark difference between actually condoning rioting and pointing out the societal hallmarks which has lead to it.


 
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We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty
and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.."
I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
You can't really justify riots under conventional means because they arise out of a system that is already inherently unjust. Protests and riots don't occur in a vacuum. Riots are the physical embodiment of anger, the distilled emotion that is the product of decades of abuse.


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You know, I'm honestly baffled that people haven't seen a golden opportunity with corona. Economies have tanked in part because of rising numbers of sick cases, but they've also tanked because of one tremendously powerful action. Inaction. People staying at home or in quarantine. You can't have an economy if nobody shows up for work, or goes out to the store to buy anything. Likewise, police can take zero action against people who stay in their homes and just don't come out.

I can understand riots being a manifestation of perhaps warranted anger, but at an emotional level they are childish in what they achieve. If people actually used their heads and turned that anger into a focal point of thought in what action can be taken to make their demands legitimate, they'd see that the key to absolutely buckle an economy of government enough to listen to a spearhead of requests would be simply not to participate. If enough people participated in coordinated inaction, you could bring a state to it's knees within a week. But no, people are fucking idiots instead.



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If enough people participated in coordinated inaction, you could bring a state to it's knees within a week.
This is the key focal point to your entire argument. "If enough people." How many people is "enough"? Millions of Americans have been out of work for months, but things are still going.


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If enough people participated in coordinated inaction, you could bring a state to it's knees within a week.
This is the key focal point to your entire argument. "If enough people." How many people is "enough"? Millions of Americans have been out of work for months, but things are still going.

That's certainly a question I can't answer as there's no magic number. But there is a certain focal point we can look at. If millions of americans are out of work and the economy is still trying to keep up, then you need to look at what's keeping it up. The core services.


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https://twitter.com/PopeyesChicken/status/1267876569965563904
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>Popeyes is nothing without Black lives

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We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty
and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.."
I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
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I was at and near some protests this past weekend in San Diego. Booked a trip with my girlfriend a week before all this happened and got caught in the middle of it Saturday night. Pretty wild, there were thousands of people, seemed mostly peaceful at first but as it got later in the night the people were wilding out. Normally I would’ve stayed but since I had my girl with me I decided we leave.

We had a great view from our hotel room of the action

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We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty
and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.."
I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
I was at and near some protests this past weekend in San Diego. Booked a trip with my girlfriend a week before all this happened and got caught in the middle of it Saturday night. Pretty wild, there were thousands of people, seemed mostly peaceful at first but as it got later in the night the people were wilding out. Normally I would’ve stayed but since I had my girl with me I decided we leave.

We had a great view from our hotel room of the action

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What'd you think of SD besides the chaos?


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The cops lost all control. I've kept an eye on reports and they are not good.
They don't even try to talk, they just shove, punch, kick or shoot.

Multiple news crews got assaulted even though their passes were clearly visible.
Dude in a wheelchair got shot and it looks like he lost an eye.
White old man got pushed, fell, hit his head and either has a concussion or worse.
There are obvious symptoms of a Power Trip.

I'm not watching Russian state news but I can bet my both nuts that they are having a field day with this.
"Comrades, remember when they said we were bad at protests? Look at them now? Do you really want these people to tell you how to run a police force?"


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‘It’s sad what ‘appened to that black geezer in America but all this rioting and looting is just not on mate’




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‘It’s sad what ‘appened to that black geezer in America but all this rioting and looting is just not on mate’


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Standard issue gun for black police officers if we follow the protester narrative.
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