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Zaid Jilani
ZaidJilani
The author of this apparently locked their Twitter account. I guess mean tweets are out of line but throwing a brick through someone's window, torching everything they owned, and assaulting
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Bishop Talbert Swan
TalbertSwan
Learn your history wypipo, you are the original rioters.You didn’t riot because you were being unjustly murdered, you rioted to subjugate Black people.You destroyed entire towns because Black people were
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AngryHoosier
AngryHoosier1
There are so many layers to this. This reminds me of how police react when someone has a knife. Except it's an old lady in a wheelchair with a knife."Oh
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DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES
BreeNewsome
I’m definitely in the camp of defending rioting & looting as a legitimate, politically-informed response to state violence. I’ve tweeted on this topic many times & I’m always willing to
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Alec Karakatsanis
equalityAlec
THREAD: I think it's important to ask why the media is so virulently opposed to "looting." This book review was far from "delightful"--it's hard for the media to even have
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Alfredo
xalfredoxG
All peace I respect everyone’s idea including those who decided to stay silent but still secretly support the #BLM protest. But if you dont, you dont. Theres no need to
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maybe: diane⁷
dianelyssa
some of y’all are way more upset about the looting of businesses than you are about the death of black lives and it is most unpleasant to me and my
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ℕ’𝕜𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕎ℝ𝕃𝔻 🇪🇬🇫🇷🇹🇳
NKeal1
Full scale of the Minneapolis looting -(A thread) A local Spirits Store being looted A Foot Locker being looted A Wendy’s getting its windows smashed in Mass Looting at a
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pxt
paulxt
re: “looting” —last night in dtla we saw some reporter and his cameraman lurk outside a cvs with a busted front window waiting for people to go inside. when they
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Leesa Kim
leesatheidiot
My parents are trying very hard not to show it but they're on edge. Worried that what happened to Koreatown in '92 will happen again. My dad's worried about the
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Shermichael Singleton
Shermichael_
People should protest, but people shouldn’t loot. Let’s not give those looking to minimize our pain an out. Use our anger constructively and not destructively. God knows I understand the
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Jim Meigs
jamesbmeigs
Maybe if far-left ideologues don't want mainstream America to think they advocate riots and looting, they shouldn't write books praising riots and looting. Just a thought.https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/
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Andrea Nicole Van D🖤
DustyFootDre
Listen, if you don't understand the connection between systemic racism and looting, it's because you are still firmly invested in the social contract. Politicians, police, educators, military; these authorities still
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Claire Berlinski.
ClaireBerlinski
This combination of essays by @gcaw--together--is particularly powerful and suggests why we might not want to have a degenerate culture that glamorizes violence. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/there-no-defense-looting/615
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Terrence K. Williams
w_terrence
WHAT IN THE FAKE JUSTICE IS THIS?They are looting the Gucci store and the Louis Vuitton store.They don’t want #JusticeForGeorgeFlyod They want new clothes and shoesIt’s not about #BLACK_LIVES_MATTERGeorge Floyd
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Rosemary Pennington
rompenni
Okay, journalists, let's have a talk, shall we? Because I am damn tired of seeing lazy reporting and lazy framing like this.First off: Let's remember what these protests are about.
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