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I don't think the world is so binary, if the entire mass of people in the streets were burning and looting we'd still be rebuilding today. Someone taking a pla
by arwineap 3y ago
I don't think the world is so binary, if the entire mass of people in the streets were burning and looting we'd still be rebuilding today.
Someone taking a playstation and some overpriced sneakers from a story several blocks away from the protests does not make protests a violet uprising with arsonists and looters. It means the vast majority of those people were protesting, and a small minority were committing crimes.
- joemazerino 3y agoYou are describing looting at rhe same time saying it isn't looting. It is easy to dismiss property theft as a non-issue but it affects small business. The "small minority" caused over 1B worth of damage at the time of the riots with some cities having never recuperated.
- michaelmrose 3y agoWhat cities never recuperated. 1B sounds like a lot until you realize that you are aggregating all sorts of negative events across a substantial period in a 23000B economy. We can avoid future misadventures murdering fewer minorities in the future.