If you were genuinely interested and not just throwing out bad faith objections, maybe you could educate yourself even minimally. — StreetlightX
But I also don't feel that in a situation where the law itself is corrupted that tactical violence against powerful interests, including corporate interests, is necessarily unjustified.
You can make a utilitarian argument that weighs the material loss of large companies (like Target) against the gain of systemic change that reduces levels of violence by security forces against minorities.
And you can make an inferential argument that draws a chain of causation from injury to powerful interests to political change.
You can't help yourself, can you? Disagreement doesn't mean bad faith. — Marchesk
It does with you. You never follow up your objections. you simply throw out new ones if the last one didn't work. It's rubbish. — StreetlightX
All I know is that the rioters have turned a substantial portion of the country less sympathetic to the movement and more concerned with personal safety from rioters. — BitconnectCarlos
Maybe it's because of people like you, who, instead of highlighting police violence against protests, the arresting of journalists, the inflammatory language used by a certain fuckwit President and so on, the first thing you post about is fucking Target. You're part of the very problem you've identified.
o it's exactly how you post. — StreetlightX
I ended our conversation because I can't really reason with someone who supports complete anarchy and burning everything down and doesn't care about the people harmed. — BitconnectCarlos
By "the law" do you mean the institution of law enforcement or the written law? Regardless, I don't see how local businesses - even powerful ones like Wal-Mart - have anything to do with what Chauvin did to Floyd.
That’s the irony of it. If we are to blame institutions, it was the State that murdered Floyd, not the private citizen. Yet here we have people destroying the property and livelihoods of fellow Americans.
Tay Anderson wanted Friday's protest against police brutality in Denver to be peaceful.
"We asked people throughout the day, please do not deface property, please do not destroy stuff, because we're not asking you to do that," Anderson, a Denver school board director and activist, told BuzzFeed News.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/0PCUzvHy/black-protesters-who-want-to-demonstrate-peacefully-are-calling-out-white-people-who-instigate-violence]
NOS, by burning down a TGI Fridays you're fighting capitalism which in turn helps dismantle systemic racism. It's a nuanced argument - — BitconnectCarlos
NOS, by burning down a TGI Fridays you're fighting capitalism which in turn helps dismantle systemic racism. It's a nuanced argument - you need a college degree to understand.
You can justify violence, destruction of property, — NOS4A2
I'm challenging you - and people like you who support the rioting - because you're insane. — BitconnectCarlos
Like the Boston tea party - pointless destruction by opponents of the rule of law. — unenlightened
And doing whatever you want since the social contract is voided.
I can sympathize with the anger, but violence will will lead to the same outcome: conquest and coercion of one group over another. — NOS4A2
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