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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow to respond to "riots never solve anything!"
https://soletstalkabout.com/2020/05/28/how-to-respond-to-riots-never-solve-anything/?fbclid=IwAR0vSl7HlPJU0kKmhQ8yq0JagwuexZ95INPKF8qWGrVKbQNkzgM71sTgBOgA quick roundup of things to say to Saltine Americans clutching their pearls over rioting and looting:
1) Rioting never solves anything!
This country was founded on rioting (and looting). The colonists didnt politely ask to be independent they started a war. Gays threw a brick. Black people rioted all over this country. Please let go of that falsehood and pick up a history book.
2) Rioting just gives people a reason not to support your cause.
Only if you equate property damage to human lives, and in that case, were you really supporting our cause anyway? If all it takes is people stealing from Target for you to say well now I dont care about dead Black people then why are we even speaking?
3) The rioters are criminals and they dont even care about police brutality stuff.
There are criminals among us in every group, whether peaceful or violent, but the reasons riots break out are varied and complicated. Look at the pictures of Minneapolis before anyone ever threw a rock or started a fire or stole anything the police firing rubber bullets and cans of tear gas into crowds of people who WERE peacefully protesting. What do you do when youre frustrated and upset and no one is listening to you? Better yet, what do you do when theyre not only refusing to listen but actively trying to cause you physical harm to shut you up? Do you go home, stand there peacefully, or get mad and try to hurt them back? Does it really matter who you hurt at that point? Would you try to hurt someone in full tactical gear holding a weapon or would you try to hurt something like a multi-billion dollar business with insurance that probably contributed to the decimation of Mom & Pops in your community? Do you want to actually DIE in that moment or are you just upset and frustrated and at your breaking point and you want to smash something?
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How to respond to "riots never solve anything!" (Original Post)
Beaverhausen
May 2020
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gopiscrap
(23,756 posts)1. this is excellent
brewens
(13,574 posts)2. Those that thought it was a good idea to put a white supremacist in the White Hous are getting
what they asked for.
Qutzupalotl
(14,302 posts)3. With Trump pouring gasoline on the fire,
we need to do all we can to avoid a second civil war.