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How is looting stores and destroying public property a proper way to protest?
by skocznymroczny 6y ago
How is looting stores and destroying public property a proper way to protest?
- krapp 6y agoEver heard of the Boston Tea Party?
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThe Boston Tea Party was a deliberate provocation. If the protesters here are trying to incite a violent revolution, I suppose that's their right in some sense, but all of us who don't want a revolution have a right to be put out by it.
- krapp 6y agoSure, but in a country where the bar for legitimate protest is set by Constitutional law at "mass armed violence," everything else seems like fair game.
- jonhohle 6y agoReplying to krapp: violent armed protest protected by the constitution is explicitly targeted at the government in response to loss of freedom. That may be justification for attacking a police station, but not local businesses.
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- happytoexplain 6y agoThe severity of the looting relates to how justified the use of violence against it is. It obviously does not relate to how justified the glorification of that violence is.
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