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You should read up on the history of the phrase "when looting starts, shooting starts"
by dmode 6y ago
You should read up on the history of the phrase "when looting starts, shooting starts"
- koheripbal 6y agoI read up on it's use in 1967. ...and it didn't really add anything. Looting leads to police/national guard having to restore order through violence. There's no hidden meaning here.
- thethethethe 6y agoIt was used by a racist police chief in reference to black protesters during the _civil rights movement_, which I think we can all agree is on the right side of history. The parallels are pretty clear to me, I’m not sure what you are missing here
- will4274 6y agoThe fact that the police chief was racist doesn't make him wrong. He can be both racist and correct that looting generally leads to shooting.
- thethethethe 6y ago> He can be both racist and correct that looting generally leads to shooting. It appears as though you are deliberately misinterpreting this statement to confirm your biases. This statement is obviously intended to be interpreted as “the state will shoot looters (and possibly other protesters) when there is looting during a political protest”. If you genuinely don’t see it this way after considering all of contextual history of racial violence and injustice, it must benefit you to have your head in the sand
- zepto 6y agoI don’t think there needs to be anything deliberate about it. My guess is that there is a huge set of people who doesn’t know the origin, and see the statement as more of a statement of fact.
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- rhegart 6y agoI say with great confidence that Trump is too stupid to know this. Maybe Stephen Miller his far right aide did and pushed the line as a dog whistle but tbh I never heard of it either till now.