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jfc, folks really do seem to think rioting and looting is like...
...a calculated policy.
Fuck no. Looters aren't gonna prioritize corporations, that's not the thought process. Riots aren't *planned*. THAT'S WHAT MAKES THEM RIOTS.
...a calculated policy.
Fuck no. Looters aren't gonna prioritize corporations, that's not the thought process. Riots aren't *planned*. THAT'S WHAT MAKES THEM RIOTS.
PS: I am not looking forward to when big corporations decide to start hiring Pinkertons to shoot back. :(
I just- I don't know, guys. I don't think anyone involved here has any real understanding of what makes a riot happen, what ugly things a riot sets in motion, and what horrendous events provoke it.
Riots aren't planned praxis. Riots are a disastrous outburst of rage at injustice
Riots aren't planned praxis. Riots are a disastrous outburst of rage at injustice
A riot may be necessary - or inevitable. The focus should be on what provoked it; the riot is a mere symptom, not the first cause.
But that doesn't mean a riot isn't *horribly* dangerous!
But that doesn't mean a riot isn't *horribly* dangerous!
I don't really give a damn about property here. Property damage from riots - or looting - is like damage from any other disaster; it's just gonna happen.
Riots are dangerous when they suspend usual social rules, and give ppl license for gleeful violence against each other.
Riots are dangerous when they suspend usual social rules, and give ppl license for gleeful violence against each other.
And no - I'm not really condemning the rioters, either. They're people in a situation I cannot understand. I support their actions for justice.
I'm mostly addressing my fellow conditionally white, cishet folks who are all aglow with the fires of joyous revolutionary enthusiasm.
I'm mostly addressing my fellow conditionally white, cishet folks who are all aglow with the fires of joyous revolutionary enthusiasm.
Folks who are all "loot corporate stores!" - yeah that shit ain't happening, folks - or focusing on "Capitalism." This is not our pain or our struggle to coopt.
honestly, stop trying to steal folks' pain and rage
Also -
one of my least favorite patterns of leftist activism in social media has been the rampant conspiracy theorizing. "Anything bad that seems to be done by one of our own is actually a foreign agitator" is conspiracy theory. You better have some ironclad fucking proof.
one of my least favorite patterns of leftist activism in social media has been the rampant conspiracy theorizing. "Anything bad that seems to be done by one of our own is actually a foreign agitator" is conspiracy theory. You better have some ironclad fucking proof.
It's enough to say "a riot is the catastrophic manifestation of vast social injustice," you don't need to go on to claim that rioters are somehow moral paragons who meticulously only target the BadPeople.
