Do these looters look BLACK to you?

[Tacomaman]

Funny how the "trumpanzees" always manage to show looting photos of black people. I guess that they just "accidentally" omitted photos like this one.

These folks are obviously not black. There may even be a tRump supporter or two in there as well......)

 

[T. A. Gardner]

These do so, what's your point? Your photo montage and my photos prove little or nothing about who did the looting where. But my all-time favorite looting clip is this one:

 

[Triplelefthook]

There are plenty of black looters as well. Certainly there are alt-right groups trying to take advantage and blame the left in addition to the pictures you both have posted.

How do you all feel about the rioting and looting? Do you feel it is a justifiable way to demonstrate anger? I have a very conservative brother-in-law who just recently posted about a children's hospital getting destroyed and he said that there's no justification for that no matter what the root cause. I found it compelling.

My other Brother-in-law is a US Marshall - you can imagine the discussion we've been having. He has been telling me that there is no problem with the police force and that most of the force they use is justified on account of the fact that Black Americans commit over half the murders in the country.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Looting is not justified, period. This is simply robbery of stores in the middle of other lawlessness. It is not a justifiable way to show anger either, particularly when it is done against a large faceless corporation that operates nationally or even internationally. Looting of small businesses is equally vile as these are attacks on people in your own community. The looters might as well be robbing homes.

For the most part, or virtually entirely, looting is about personal gain of wealth by criminal action (robbery). It makes no other statement.

As for dealing with it, I'd say gunfire and casualties among the looters is the best deterrent there is. You don't rob / loot a store when the owner is going to shoot you if you try. You don't loot if the police show up and shoot you in the middle of your commission of a felony. That ends looting very quickly as the vast majority of looters don't see losing or risking their life for a big-screen TV as worth it.

Violent rioting has a grey zone with it. It depends on several things like what is being protested, the response of the government, and the legality (at least as far as the authorities and government are concerned) of protesting at all. So, it might be justifiable to a degree. But, even then, random smashing of windows, and trashing of property are not justifiable actions. These are rarely aimed at the target of the protest but rather simply random acts of violence.

 

[Tacomaman]

The purpose of the OP was to simply refute the previous stupidly racist OP by daddyo claiming that all looters were black and likely Biden supporters.

There is no way daddyo canvassed looters to determine their political persuasions. Sadly, in trump-like pathological lying mode, he would like you to believe that he did.

That said, the looting serves no useful purpose regardless of who is doing it.

 

[Bill]

The purpose of the OP was to simply refute the previous stupidly racist OP by daddyo claiming that all looters were black and likely Biden supporters.

There is no way daddyo canvassed looters to determine their political persuasions. Sadly, in trump-like pathological lying mode, he would like you to believe that he did.

That said, the looting serves no useful purpose regardless of who is doing it.

Sad times & social media is really the new vessel for lies..

I saw two fuzzy pictures post yesterday, same incident... One w/ a black head & white leg~ the other fool passing/sharing the lie posted the same pic a white head & black leg.... Ppl are so stupid it is fortunate we have had some great minds to get us this far............

 

[jimmymccready]

A response to daddyo

 

[Walt]

As for dealing with it, I'd say gunfire and casualties among the looters is the best deterrent there is.

Shooting looters did not work that well for the French or the Russians. It becomes a battle that you if you lose, you lose completely. Losing completely means revolution and mass murder. Sometimes it is better to try to deescalate violence.

Besides the French and Russian Revolutions, there is also the American Revolution. The Boston Tea Party was a looting event, and the reaction to it helped cause the American Revolution.

You don't rob / loot a store when the owner is going to shoot you if you try.

It does not always work. Sometimes the mobs reaction is to kill everyone who opposes them, even if it means some members of the mob die. The French Army promised King Louis XVI that opening up fire on the looters would end the rioting. Instead, it turned the rioting into a revolution, and meant that the mob had to kill all who oppose them. King Louis XVI regretted having escalated the situation when he was guillotined.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Shooting looters did not work that well for the French or the Russians. It becomes a battle that you if you lose, you lose completely. Losing completely means revolution and mass murder. Sometimes it is better to try to deescalate violence.

Besides the French and Russian Revolutions, there is also the American Revolution. The Boston Tea Party was a looting event, and the reaction to it helped cause the American Revolution.

It did for the Koreans and Asians in the LA riots over Rodney King. The second they started shooting back, the looting stopped and went elsewhere.

It does not always work. Sometimes the mobs reaction is to kill everyone who opposes them, even if it means some members of the mob die. The French Army promised King Louis XVI that opening up fire on the looters would end the rioting. Instead, it turned the rioting into a revolution, and meant that the mob had to kill all who oppose them. King Louis XVI regretted having escalated the situation when he was guillotined.

A logical fallacy in the form of an ergo hoc prompter hoc. That is you assume the results will be failure so you say, in essence Don't even try.