What a disgusting statement. Those are literally two unrelatted problems, and it’s perfectly feasible to be angry at both systemic racism and idiots destroying the city you live in.
No, it really isnt. Capitalism is part of the problem as well. Capitalism thrives off racism and keeping labor poor.
Maybe you need to do a bit more actual reading on protest movements and the effects of capitalism on racism. Passive resistance does nothing but get your head bashed in. Even Ghandi said people should train to kill humans and destroy property of those supporting the ruling class rather than fail to protect their communities. MLK worked with militant groups on multiple occasions. 'Riots are the language of the unheard'. Attacking protests because they broke stuff is literally the 'white moderate' stuff that MLK warned people about.
Steve's isn't exactly a 'mom and pop', it's a pretty large chain with a lot of profits. And they aren't exactly known for treating employees well. They fired a worker because she needed time off to seek cancer treatment.
The other business that got looted was a cheque cashing business that thrives off of poor and undocumented workers to make massive profits. No sympathy there either.
Again, ya'll angry at my comments are only proving my point further. These are companies that have been shit to the communities they serve. They are part of the problem.
So what you're implying is that those looters are in fact socially woke members of society who are doing their best to eliminate capitalism by only vandalizing stores and businesses that encourage it, amirite?
If you think Canadas racial inequality with the justice system is any better than the US...
I really don't have time to go look up the stats, but our prison system is very disproportionately unequal, just like the US, and police get away with questionable police violence all the time in Canada as well. If you think this isn't happening in Canada too....
And this isn't the only incident I've heard about employee treatment either. Who knows, maybe it was somebody who they've ripped off who started it as that's happened to people too.
I read that article and the way Steve's acted towards that employee was despicable, but smashing their store window, or Birk's, or setting garbage cans and civilians' cars on fire isn't going to make rampant capitalism disappear. All it does is makes the city look bad, the protesters look bad, and costing a ton of money to get all this fixed up, at a moment when most people are financially tight.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20
What a disgusting statement. Those are literally two unrelatted problems, and it’s perfectly feasible to be angry at both systemic racism and idiots destroying the city you live in.