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Please explain why you think property is the same importance as human lives being destroyed by people who were sworn to protect them.
by mdszy 6y ago
Please explain why you think property is the same importance as human lives being destroyed by people who were sworn to protect them.
- remlazar 6y agoHow is destroying businesses not destroying lives? Also you obviously haven't looked at the list of incidents. The incidents include lives being destroyed sure, but it also includes cops defending themselves from communist street gangs.
- elygre 6y ago"Communist Street gangs" -- are there such things in the US?
- headsupernova 6y agoif only
- iamstupidsimple 6y agoI won't go as far as equating property to human lives, but do remember the vast majority of businesses looted or burned were small, already hurting from Covid-19, and a large number of them black owned. Sure, these people's business owners weren't killed, but everything they worked for during their life is pretty much ruined.
- obiye27 6y agoSo what
- alexilliamson 6y agoDo you have data supporting the claim that most looted businesses were small?
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- uoaei 6y agoThis is something that's repeated very often on news media with zero citations to the datasets from which they derive their conclusions. Would be interested to see your sources because folks like myself are highly skeptical about unsubstantiated claims, especially when they serve ulterior interests. In this case, small business rhetoric supports mostly the large businesses that want to suppress wages and avoid workplace protection regulations.[1] [1] https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-111-how-small-business-rhetoric-is-used-to-protect-corporate-america https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-111-how-small-bus...