05-17-2023, 01:09 PM
(05-17-2023, 12:48 PM)pally Wrote: The race riots continued because there were several more incidents similar to George Floyd's over that summer. Plus other stressor like COVID and lack of jobs. I hear right wingers say that Floyd would still be alive if he had just followed the cop's order. That would be true of Ashli Babbit as well...but Floyd wasn't trying to over throw the government like she was.
No one condoned the violence. Show me anyone who did. We understood the reasons behind the actual protests but things crossed the line when rioting exploded. If you can't see the difference in the origins then maybe you are working too hard to justify the actions of Trump, his advisors, and supporters on Jan 6
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Again, making excuses and proving my point for me. As for Dems excusing violence, as you are here, are you really serious? Kamala Harris helped raise bail money for those arrested. The mayor of Seattle allowed an "autonomous zone" to be set up where lawlessness reigned and multiple people were murdered. "The Squad" members took every opportunity to shift the focus to the "racist origins of policing", and calling for the disbanding of law enforcement. Need I go into the term "mostly peaceful?" When you mitigate and excuse violence, as you are doing in your post by throwing out excuses like "Covid stressor" and "lack of jobs" you are mitigating and excusing the violence, which is the exact opposite of condemning it. Use the Rittenhouse incident as an interesting case study. Every shred of evidence showed he acted in self-defense. Many posters here who are hardly right leaning were of this opinion. Yet the response from the left was, "he shouldn't have been there", he was "looking for trouble", all the while ignoring the fact that he had no more, or less right to be there than any of the protestors. He was attacked, not the other way around, yet the media coverage was wall to wall excuses and mitigation for the left wing violence. If you're honestly blind to this glaring fact, and the consistent attempts to excuse and mitigate left wing violence then I honestly don't know what to tell you.
If a right leaning person tried to excuse and mitigate what happened on Jan. 6th you would, correctly, call them out for making excuses for the inexcusable. Which makes your contradictory position on the '20 riots, and beyond, all the more glaring. Like I said, it would be great if we could all get on the same page and condemn politically motivated violence, but apparently we're not there yet.
