Or to put it differently: the production of "bad actors" is a production and reflection of the social reality that birthed them. The attempt to separate those actors into little packets of 'good and bad' is an attempt to deny the reality that produced them. — StreetlightX
The apathetic narcissistic people who paves the way for fascism, deserves the fate that fascism deserves. Act and do something or consequences will unfold, not as punishment, but as a deterministic force to balance out the inbalance. — Christoffer
we don’t need to worry about an adult who got punched by a toddler, he can take it, but that doesn’t make punching in general harmless. — Pfhorrest
But I don't think it follows that a movement, whatever it ends up being, needs to accept every behaviour. Treating people as merely driven by outside circumstance is taking away their agency. — Echarmion
No one's asking anyone to accept anything. Only that protestors don't have to keep qualifying their protests at every juncture to make people like you feel good. — StreetlightX
Good. No one cares about harmless protests.
A rational discussion HERE is possible - not only that I believe that is the point of this kind of forum.
TL;DR: You defending the overreactions to the original crime is why everyone is arguing with you about that, and not talking about the original crime. Everyone agrees the original crime was wrong, so there's nothing more to say about that. — Pfhorrest
It's important to keep in mind that you can accept the protests, with the rioting, as legitimate, while also saying that rioting shouldn't be encouraged, for whatever reason. — Echarmion
Everyone agrees the original crime was wrong, so there's nothing more to say about that. — Pfhorrest
I don’t think anyone commenting here is looking the other way — I like sushi
Man, those local business owners must have really, really had it coming. — BitconnectCarlos
WOW Well done you did it! You said the Important Definitely-Not-Trivial Thing To Say. I wish all the protestors had your courage! — StreetlightX
Everyone agrees the original crime was wrong, so there's nothing more to say about that. — Pfhorrest
While there may be some sort of rational discussion to be found here in this thread, I don't think it can be had with those who for no serious reason support destroying local businesses and in turn the communities that house these businesses. It's just destruction for the sake of destruction. Simply having righteous anger doesn't entitle one to a blank cheque when it comes to violence and no one can seriously entertain this viewpoint intellectually speaking.
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