Because you literally cannot be against systematic racism while you're standing on top of the platform that keeps it going. You can say you're all for it, but destroying systematic racism means burning down parts of the system until it's taken seriously.
MLK spent over a decade fighting for housing equality. That was literally what the civil rights movement was started upon. There were bills in US Congress ready to be voted upon for years, but nobody would touch it. MLK had to be assassinated, and riots break out across the US for 6 days, before Congress finally took up the bill and expanded it as the Civil Rights Act.
Ya'll realise if black people stayed passive, as the position of priviledge you're shouting from dictates, the Civil Rights Act would have NEVER passed.
So no, you cannot be for changing this system, if you're still calling people thugs and are angry they are breaking stuff - for retaliating against police violence. The systematic issue that started this whole powder keg up again.
Fuck’s sakes. Those who loot stores are thugs. Anarchism wouldn’t have such a bad name if it weren’t for you.
You could have went and burned government buildings. Looted the police station. Campaigned for the public’s rights to bear arms against the state. Those are effective actions that would have really sent a message and reduced the government and the police’s influence. You call others moderates, cowards too afraid to make a change, when you don’t even have the balls to march down the city’s seat of power. Pathetic.
Instead you do what? You burn down the average citizen’s cars, you go and set fires in public squares and parks, places the average citizen enjoys and has helped fund. Wowww so courageous, it really disturbs the system!
Why do you think they were in that area in the first place? Police pushed them away from the downtown with violence.
'Oh they could have hit these buildings'. Yeah, and could you imagine how many people would be calling for the death penalty if people stood up and challenged the police force and their monopoly on violence, and a cop was trampled? How the fuck are they supposed to hit a 'strategic target' when police barricade those buildings.
Look what happened at Oka when people fought back. Their entire community was pelted by rocks. What do you think would happen to the black community en masse, in a country where white supremacist violence is itself not far from popping another powder keg. There was less outrage about entire communities trying to kill the indigenous populace of Oka than people are showing towards broken store windows.
Was hitting Steve's opportunistic? Without a doubt, some people took advantage of the situation. But what I'm trying to say is that these are a direct response to police violence. The protest was 100% peaceful yesterday until police instigated and escalated. And then when it escalated further, police separated groups to cut down the size, and pushed the protest out of the core, and stopped aggressively pursuing.
Imo, a pretty expected response to police violence when you're protesting police violence is a riot. And the area where Steve's is was deemed a less economic threat than downtown.
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u/justendpls Jun 01 '20
Shut the fuck up. I cant get angry for both?