magz wrote:
It looks a bit like there are people protesting and there are people snapping the opportunity of the chaos to loot and demolish.
And the police seems more visible fighting the former not the latter... Maybe because chaos and destruction plays to their hands, diverts the attention from the original problem of police brutality, justifies using force against the protesters.
The police is a side in this conflict, not just order-keeper they should be.
There are people that are really mad and there are others that are using the opportunity of law and order disintegrating for personal gain. This is true now and it was true back during the 1960s civil unrest. What was also true then and now is that is that conservatives will emphasize the personal gain motive and progressives the anger motive. What is also true now and then is that conservatives will perceive the explanation of anger motivation as being excuse making by soft on crime snowflakes, and liberals will perceive the personal gain excuses made by racists and white privilege.
One must remember we are dealing with mostly NT’s here and the herd or mob mentality explanation can not be underestimated. When you combine that with free stuff with non consequences or anger motivation you get people doing things that they would never normally do.
I see the old “outside agitator” explanation is back. Back in the day it was mostly conservatives that used this canard. Now it is both sides. Progress(SMH). Outside agitators explanations are largely excuse making denial. People can not get it in their thick heads that this is us, or at least part of us. We are not better than this. Not that there are not outside agitators that sometimes come in and exploit situations. Exploit is the key word, something in us has to be there for them to exploit. None of them point a gun at people and say riot or else.
I am old enough to remember the 60s and Rodney King riots and the same arguments being made. I feel I am living in the unmade riot sequel of the movie “Groundhog Day”. This is a sequel I did not voluntarily pay to see. Very frustrating and depressing.
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