Conservatives automatically assume

If Black people riot, it’s “BLM”
If white people riot, it’s “antifa”

The goal is to demean these groups via guilt by association. It doesn’t matter if the “rioters” are in fact local gangs having no connection to BLM or white gangs like the Proud Boys not connected to antifa, and in some places, even fighting with antifa.

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

Well and there's a few more things buried in there:

- That riots have no justification, cause, or meaning.

- That riots somehow 'ruin' political causes despite history demonstrating the exact opposite.

- That riots are a form of violence. Property damage and looting aren't violence.

- That riots are a GREATER form of violence than say, shooting someone seven times in the back.

There's a basic belief here that the property of white people has greater value than the personhood of black people.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@CountScrofula Also, that all left protesters are Antifa and that Antifa is a terrorist organisation. So all left protesters are terrorists.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Burnley123 Yeah absolutely.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@CountScrofula

Property damage and looting aren't violence.

Bull pucky.

There's a basic belief here that the property of white people has greater value than the personhood of black people.

Double bull pucky! You must have missed the photos [back when the news covered the riots] of the black people crushed, head in hands as their lifes work burned behind them.

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Budwick · 70-79, M

@CountScrofula

A violent crime is -by legal definition- one which does harm upon a victim.

You burn my business down - I become a victim.

It's not rocket science counselor.

don't trot out the handful of black-owned businesses harmed in the first few days of the protests

Why? Doesn't fit your narrative?

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@Budwick And of course we see antifa and the democrap party jumping in and helping those innocent victims who have lost their life's work

Budwick · 70-79, M

@sunsporter1649

of course we see antifa and the democrap party jumping in and helping those innocent victims who have lost their life's work

Yeah, I must have missed that episode.