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Here's a thought: if there is both protesting and rioting going on, we don't have to say this is either protesting or rioting. This implies the venn diagram of

Here's a thought: if there is both protesting and rioting going on, we don't have to say this is either protesting or rioting. This implies the venn diagram of the protesters and rioters is a circle. It could be, but there also could be no overlap whatsoever. Pretending it is necessarily a circle -- they are one and the same -- is asserting a political point of view. (Also, this makes it easy to delegitimize any protest: send some looters. As soon as anyone loots simultaneous with and adjacent to the protests, it is now a riot.)

generalizations 4y ago
> we don't have to say this is either protesting or rioting This is true. The problem is, no one is doing this WRT any of the "civil disturbances" that happened over the last few years. > this makes it easy to delegitimize any protest: send some looters Or anyone willing to make the protest cross the line from "peaceful" to "violent." Of course, these caveats can be just as easily applied to events in the midwest as to events in the capitol.