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"When the looting starts, the shooting starts" isn't deceptive. It's clearly a call to violence. It is 100% unambiguous.
by JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
"When the looting starts, the shooting starts" isn't deceptive. It's clearly a call to violence. It is 100% unambiguous.
- Darmody 6y agoAre you sure? Because when Trump said that the last thing I thought was he was calling for violence. To me he was stating a fact. And as we've seen, people rioted, looted and some ended up using guns. Happened in 92 also. Remember the "roof Koreans"?
- totony 6y agoIts in poor taste, but it's not your place to say that it has no value. That post has a lot of political meaning and promotes strong police response to non peaceful protests. People are just angry about the phrasing. This is far from having no value imo.
- xg15 6y ago"The phrasing" is a historical quote that is connotated with calls to violence since the original social justice movement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the_shooting_starts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the...
- totony 6y agoWhat are you implying, that it has no value because it advocates violence? EDIT: To be precise why I'd disagree with that, promoting self defense advocates violence, but still has value to pretty much everyone. This is controversial because of the current climate, but saying it has no value is false.
- flyinglizard 6y agoIt's a call for violence in the face of violence, which is exactly what used to be the obvious role of police up until this marvellous new age bestowed on us by 2020.
- dingaling 6y agoThen report it to the authorities for investigation and prosecution.
- xg15 6y agoWhich are supposed to do what? Exercise censorship? Prosecute Trump?