06-05-2020, 09:18 AM
(06-04-2020, 10:19 PM)bfine32 Wrote: What needs to happen is for folks to stop politicizing the issue. I see in this thread folks saying the issue is the POTUS. These folks are just like the looters: They give 2 shits about the issue, they just want to profit from it.
I think hardly anyone blames Trump for police violence against blacks or for the rioting. Both are not his fault. The problem with Trump though is that he does nothing to calm the situation, and this is a failing in leadership that is not "just like Obama" really.
Obama or any reasonable POTUS really would not have teargassed protesters to clear the path to a photo opportunity. He would not have mused about sending the military to the states against those states' will. He would not have used a Wallace saying of when the looting starts the shooting starts. And then some. Trump is responsible for the escalatory (or at least distinctly not deescalatory) words and actions he chooses to handle this situation. And these deserve some critizism, or at least those that critisize them do not deserve to be compared to looters.