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Haha! Using Thoreau's essays to defend rioters and looters plus criminals being killed by "racist policing..." Welcome to the internet, where the real problem i
by fl0wrini 6y ago
Haha! Using Thoreau's essays to defend rioters and looters plus criminals being killed by "racist policing..." Welcome to the internet, where the real problem is. A place where one criminal's death (2.9e-10 of the population) can be glorified and shared as fuel to spark outrage amongst entire cities to destroy innocent people's lives and homes.
- projektfu 6y ago”it indicates the grave limitations of a political and philosophical investment in individual heroism—the danger inherent in the voluntarism of identifying political efficacy with moral purity and deeply held convictions.” I think the author is explicitly disavowing defenses of rioters and looters.