Imagine a battered wife, beaten almost to death by her abusive husband repeatedly for years, who finally snaps because she can& #39;t bear it any more. So she beats him up severely in self-defense, then the police show up & arrest her.
That& #39;s what you& #39;re seeing at BLM riots. 1/
That& #39;s what you& #39;re seeing at BLM riots. 1/
THAT& #39;S why some of us can& #39;t bring ourselves to condemn the rioting with the fierceness many folks expect of us. It& #39;s not that we are in any way okay with rioting: it& #39;s that we sympathize so much with battered people who have finally snapped after lifetimes of unbearable abuse. 2/
Folks without emotional intelligence don& #39;t comprehend grieving so deeply with those who grieve that you feel the pain pouring out of these protests, so they misread our reticence as approval of rioting/violence, or partisan hypocrisy, or intellectual inconsistency, or worse 3/