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In reply to the discussion: I was so disgusted by the looting I saw in the Minneapolis Target store... [View all]
intheflow
(28,463 posts)136. Nothing says white privilege more than condemning
black people's behavior after literally centuries of public lynchings. 
Then, too, there's this:
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I was so disgusted by the looting I saw in the Minneapolis Target store... [View all]
Archae
May 2020
OP
Injustice causes this sort of behavior. Why are the Cops not in jail. They clearly murdered a man?
Demsrule86
May 2020
#79
And police tasing people, firing rubber bullets randomly, and pepper spraying people
womanofthehills
May 2020
#120
It is the framing by the RW that it allows, NOT any remote sympathy for the Target store.
Celerity
May 2020
#6
Arrest the coppers, give them a fair and speedy trial, and lock them up for life. Systemically
Celerity
May 2020
#16
Status-quo reform simply increases the likelihood of another George Floyd.
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2020
#19
An oppressive system cannot be reformed; imagining that it can be is upholding the status quo.
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2020
#25
That is not a tenable position. The US would instantly turn into a Mad Max dystopian nightmare with
Celerity
May 2020
#47
If this is the case (it's not) then why are there zero advanced nations (many staggering less brutal
Celerity
May 2020
#52
Because it's a radical idea, and the status quo is invested in keeping the police around.
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2020
#54
I mentioned Mao because communism is anti-private property (in theory, never practice)
Celerity
May 2020
#61
There's actually little evidence that more cops leads to less crime, so deterrence isn't necessarily
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2020
#65
Funny, just a few days ago duers were gleefully recounting their calls to turn in their neighbors.
Tipperary
May 2020
#88
completely disagree, as a PoC myself, and you offer nothing of true import, other than some vague
Celerity
May 2020
#30
That 'Police Are Inherited From Slavery', Ma'am, Is One Of Those Tiresome Half-Truths
The Magistrate
May 2020
#66
I am the descendant of enslaved people as well (enslaved West Africans from Barbados), and thus part
Celerity
May 2020
#127
I try to avoid the idea of "deserve." Does it deserve to get a pass for its rampant union-busting?
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2020
#59
Love your diversion from my post but no worry's now about that store and it's manager
Bengus81
May 2020
#99
and you are just repeating the same line over and over, we all have opinions, stop spamming us.
sunonmars
May 2020
#97
pent up anger. years of watching black men murdered by cops with no repercussions across America,
beachbumbob
May 2020
#29
I 100% agree, it takes away from the police and makes the story about stealing. nt
USALiberal
May 2020
#37
Somehow I doubt that the people looting stores are anything more than crass opportunists.
milestogo
May 2020
#51
Me too...and cops escalated it in the beginning with hard core tactic against protesters.
Demsrule86
May 2020
#81
Had the cops been arrested, I doubt it would have happened. But a Black man was executed
Demsrule86
May 2020
#78
I'm over listening to people lecture marginalized people how they should protest
StarfishSaver
May 2020
#116
Looting is an expression of outrage from oppressed people all over the planet
maxsolomon
May 2020
#125
Binary thinking is the idea that can't both criticize looting & be an ally & support the protest.
ehrnst
May 2020
#137
"surveillance policies geared toward poor people" Actually geared against theft.
EX500rider
May 2020
#144
