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MoonRiver

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12. What cheering?

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Tue Apr 28, 2015, 07:37 AM

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It's easy to support the violence and looting when you're safe in the lily white suburbs. [View all] ForgoTheConsequence Apr 2015 OP

I wouldn't set foot in Baltimore even if you paid me. Quantess Apr 2015 #1

Oh? And where are you posting from? tenderfoot Apr 2015 #2

Cops started it, they didn't burn down the senior housing complex. ForgoTheConsequence Apr 2015 #5

I believe that... tenderfoot Apr 2015 #6

"without having any skin in the game." Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #49

That's the 'She was asking for it' defense of rape... Oktober Apr 2015 #47

The cops started the violence tenderfoot Apr 2015 #48

"And where are you posting from?" Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #50

Los Angeles - where cops started every riot I've witnessed. tenderfoot Apr 2015 #51

I remember the cops ripping Reginald Denny out of his truck in 92 Politicalboi Apr 2015 #54

You mean after cops that beat Rodney King were acquitted in Simi Valley? tenderfoot Apr 2015 #59

hey, the burning down of affordable housing for seniors was the perfect way geek tragedy Apr 2015 #3

Arson, looting and smashing cars of your friends and neighbors... 4139 Apr 2015 #4

Who is cheering it on? cwydro Apr 2015 #7

Not only are people cheering on the violence... Initech Apr 2015 #37

Well, technically it can... TampaAnimusVortex Apr 2015 #42

I believe it takes a special kind of thoughtless 1st world privileg LanternWaste Apr 2015 #8

Or maybe these are thoughts from a mixed race person of relatively little privilege..... ForgoTheConsequence Apr 2015 #14

Yep AgingAmerican Apr 2015 #43

Agree. Many of these local businesses sufrommich Apr 2015 #9

Who is cheering? morningfog Apr 2015 #10

....? ForgoTheConsequence Apr 2015 #11

That OP was not cheering. morningfog Apr 2015 #16

Absolutely it was. ForgoTheConsequence Apr 2015 #20

Ohhh! Calling me naive. morningfog Apr 2015 #62

Sure it was. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2015 #58

I am sure the right is cheering get the red out Apr 2015 #33

This message was self-deleted by its author Lancero Apr 2015 #44

What cheering? MoonRiver Apr 2015 #12

Right? Empathizing now means "cheering." ScreamingMeemie Apr 2015 #28

Umm...read through this thread. Ms. Toad Apr 2015 #30

Do you know that this person lives in a lily white suburb? MoonRiver Apr 2015 #40

My point is that people on DU ARE cheering the rioting, Ms. Toad Apr 2015 #46

This is reverse reverse racism Capt. Obvious Apr 2015 #13

How about trying to understand it, leaving judgment aside? cali Apr 2015 #15

I do understand. ForgoTheConsequence Apr 2015 #18

Yes, but anyone who has pounded their fist on the table, or given the finger must sort of 'get it' HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #31

Phil Ochs said it best. ForgoTheConsequence Apr 2015 #17

not only that, they'd be rooting for the cops to beat the shit out of any protestor or rioter geek tragedy Apr 2015 #27

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible... 99Forever Apr 2015 #19

It's a complete societal breakdown. ForgoTheConsequence Apr 2015 #21

You need to stop assuming you speak for anyone except yourself. 99Forever Apr 2015 #23

Or all the people whose cars were trashed, jumped on, vandalized... Quantess Apr 2015 #25

That quote is utterly wrong mythology Apr 2015 #38

It's easy to be a self-righteous moralist sitting in front of your computer typing. 99Forever Apr 2015 #45

White liberals? Ms. Toad Apr 2015 #22

I've seen that too. nt cwydro Apr 2015 #34

No cheering here but would it be like neocons cheering a war without suffering from the violence or pampango Apr 2015 #24

Can people quit trying to reframe this to fit their own narratives? ScreamingMeemie Apr 2015 #26

I've seen at least one post that said, cwydro Apr 2015 #35

Which falls into "there are fringe outliers..." ScreamingMeemie Apr 2015 #36

How would you reframe "Sometimes ya gotta fuck things up before things change."? lumberjack_jeff Apr 2015 #57

with a reach like that you should be mopinko Apr 2015 #29

It's easy to support pacifism when you're safe in your lily white skin. ret5hd Apr 2015 #32

i dunno. seems more like an understanding the anger, while others comfortably are clueless to the seabeyond Apr 2015 #39

Easy to oppose these things, too. Orsino Apr 2015 #41

It's easy to condemn the rioters Hissyspit Apr 2015 #52

Link to or name those who are cheering from their lily white suburbs. Thanks. nt ChisolmTrailDem Apr 2015 #53

The best that can be said about some of the most popular posts... lumberjack_jeff Apr 2015 #55

Let's take up a collection and bus the rioters to the wealthy neighborhoods, Zorra Apr 2015 #56

Great idea. Let's send them to Charles Johnson's neighborhood Capt. Obvious Apr 2015 #60

I'd be more apt to support this. ForgoTheConsequence Apr 2015 #61

You have to remember some on the Left are.. MicaelS Apr 2015 #63