Yeah police murdering is bad, but have you thought about the poor people who have to shop somewhere else for their bras?
"It's 2013 and I still view the internet on a 560x192 resolution monitor!"
Tell me again why the private store of Papa Joe has to be looted and burned down, potentially driving him out to live on the street and die off as he cannot pay his bills?
Or maybe smashing his house? He had nothing to do with that. So why the anger against HIM? I even understand burning the police station down, they were directly responsible, both for the murder and for the systemic failures and racism. Fight the system and all that. Not the Papa Joe.
One bad thing does not excuse other bad things, nor does it excuse having even more people suffering aside from the killed man. Looting fucking TV's is a crime, end of discussion.
Because we live in a racist system of oppression that creates volatile social situations that eventually blow up in this fashion.
If you addressed the former, the latter wouldn't happen. You are trying to tone police the reactions of that have been oppressed and dehumanized in this country since its foundation when they finally have enough.
What that speaks to isn't how morally righteous you are for looking out for this invisible "little man". It speaks to a bubble of privilege where you think of this event as a public spectacle and not as what it is; the result of state sanctioned terror.
But like I said. That private store was probably smoking weed when it was a construction sight and was bound to end up burned down sooner or later.
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Real solid argument you got there champ.
"Don't riot or else you could be treated like Native Americans."
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
So roiting and looting, which are crimes too by the way, are completely OK huh?
You lose all right to the moral high ground with this mentality. There is no justification for looting and rioting. Someone else committing a crime does not give you a free pass to commit your own. Your mentality is a part of the problem.
Only the death of Americans. They are the problem.
Coronavirus has done a wonderful job at thinning their numbers, I honestly wonder if it actually WAS created in a lab. Think about it.
China hates America.
America is the unhealthiest, fattest, stupidest nation on the planet.
Chin unleashes plague that is easily beaten with common sense and a healthy lifestyle.
Most of the world recovers.
America suffers, but because of their shitty culture.
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#boycottchina
Answer this question, yes or no:
Would you want to be treated as a black person is treated in this country?
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Nah, Y'all Qaeda didn't have their divine leader in the White House back then so there was significantly less reason to question the peaceful transition of power.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Not what I was talking about. Again, one crime does not give you a free pass to commit others. It is hypocritical to be outraged about harm to one innocent person then turn around and be completely OK with harming other innocents in response. Rioting and looting are unacceptable. period.
Okay.
Why did MPD choose to escalate the peaceful protest into a full blown riot, then?
And that you're not even willing to entertain the affirmative is answer enough. As was said: You know what's happening. You know you don't want it for you. I want to know why you are so willing to accept it, or to allow it to happen for others.
I've little compunction in saying quite openly that 2020 has made me absolutely ashamed to be white. I am disgusted by the behavior and opinions that a significant number of my demographic practices and holds given all the evidence that is available. I am beyond appalled at the way you all carry on about property damage as if it remotely holds a candle to a centuries long campaign of human terror.
No lives matter until black lives matter. It's as simple as that, Karen.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi