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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It’s kind of amazing to me the extent to which people refuse to understand why riots occur. They do not occur in a vacuum. They are not caused solely by a single event. They are the result of built-up frustration, anger, and disillusionment with the system. Scapegoating it all onto agitator groups is a way of not having to deal with the underlying cause of unrest. Yes, of course there are opportunists and riot-for-the-sake-of-riot individuals out there, but they seize on any bit of unrest. Their presence does not mean the reasons people are in the streets is not worth understanding.