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I wonder how many people on this thread have participated in the riots, theft, and destruction of our local businesses?

I wonder how many have told a cop to go fuck themselves in the past 24 hours.

Judging by how quickly you were downvoted, I'm guessing quite a few.

Which means everyone is missing the point. It doesn't matter if you personally participated in the riots, theft, and destruction: you are in the crowd of people which is a collective and as such, is treated as a collective. There is no other way around it. It's easy to think about it as an ordinary situation, but this is much like war. Only a handful of the population is actively engaged in a war but the damage is reflected upon everyone.

Maybe the smartest move is for the legitimate protestors to go somewhere else, do something else, so that we can isolate those who are taking advantage of the chaos to riot and loot. The protestors are basically just cover for the rioters/looters at this point. To play devil's advocate, they play cover for each other. Protestors retain legitimacy by claiming the rioters/looters are some other people. Rioters/looters can do their work because of all the people and chaos. Protestors have the leverage of continuing violence and destruction unless their demands are met while looters get their free Jordans and Gucci.

My point exactly!

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