WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:
Tall Midget wrote:
I was focusing on the topic of the thread, yet you accuse me of "ignoring the issue" because I don't entertain your tangents? OK.
You can conflate riots and protests all you want, but you are only exposing your allegiance to the social elite by doing so.
Perhaps you should reserve your moral indignation for a ruling class that has gradually delegitimated itself over the past four decades through its consolidation of power and wealth on one end of the social spectrum.
The issue was bringing out a guillotine amidst widespread social unrest. Now you can scream "ruling class" all you want, but they are going to be fine if and when the riots turn messy again. And if there was a coherent plan to do something about inequality I would like to see it. All I see on the streets destroy our history, abolish the police and steal shit. And burning down our cities isn't helping the poor, just like be mad at the ruling class isn't a strategy.
It was a peaceful protest. No one was hurt. The protesters appear to be low-wage Amazon employees, not violent rioters. The fact that you appear incapable of distinguishing between the two groups perfectly illustrates your bias. All you see on the streets are people that "destroy our history...and steal shit?" What a surprise.
One major thrust of the anti-police protests has been to press local governments to divert funding from the police force so that citizens can receive a higher quality of services such as day care, health care, education, afterschool programs, and vocational training. These are essential building blocks of a sustainable society, a social foundation that elites have undermined for forty years. You want to preserve society? It's probably best to establish social conditions under which that society can be reproduced rather than ensuring those conditions no longer exist. American leaders have largely failed for decades--and so do arguments in support of the cannibalistic status quo they have created. Rioting and destruction do not stand in opposition to the neoliberal order; they are its logical outgrowth.
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