Originally Posted By: afsaneh77
And yet, I never said looting is valid. That's the whole point of why I got mad with that recurrent question. It's that this whole situation has insensitively reduced to a question of if is it right to burn down your own neighborhood or not. But that's not the issue, nor is the big picture. You can't shut down an argument with asking obvious questions that has been already established. Yeah, everyone knows looting is bad. But do you expect people not to protest when police shoots one of them with such unconscionable manner? When they throw tear gas, do you expect people not to set fire to garbage cans, so they can breathe again? And then, don't you expect in a poor neighborhood, there be opportunistic looters? Denying there are bad people doesn't make them go away. And painting them as the whole of a neighborhood or race is not gonna make a valid point.


afs, in your attempt to set the stage for your soapbox (and there is nothing wrong with that - we all do it) you are missing one major point. pb's repeated (and unanswered) question is a valid point to be considered in light of those supporting all the bad things you yourself mentioned above.


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