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ForgoTheConsequence

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21. It's a complete societal breakdown.

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 07:44 AM

Apr 2015

But that doesn't mean that what is happening now is a positive. In fact I would bet most people in these communities who had to take the day off work to watch their kids or had their housing or business burned to the ground don't care whose fault it is at this point.

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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