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ORIGINAL: Brad H It's unfortunate, but, if it takes looting and rioting to make changes that may have otherwise never come to fruition, count me in. I don't think anyone took joy in watching the events. It was upsetting. It was at times chaotic. The riots and looting are the actions that will HARM progress, not the actions that will help create it. Let's think about this with a clear mind for a second: do you think the people that need to change their mindset and becoming more open to racial equality will become more or less likely to do so after they see a group of people riot, loot and burn sections of their city down? Absolutely correct. Thanks, I find it a little disturbing that no one left-of-center will come in and respond to Brad's comments that can only be described as tacitly approving of rioting and looting. The bolded comment above is horrible in my opinion. Shockingly bad. And even if one makes the argument that the ends justify the means, I have seen no evidence that there would any gain in the rioters ends. In fact, it seems to be the opposite: "What’s often hard for people to see is that there are these white moderates who are part of the Democratic coalition as long as they perceive there to be order, but when they perceive there to be too much disorder they shift to the party that has owned the issue of order, which is the Republican Party. For some people, the idea that there are these swing Democratic-minded voters is hard to grasp, but there is pretty strong evidence that in 2016, and in 1968, that was an important and influential niche of voters." - Omar Wasow, a professor of politics at Princeton. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-violent-protests-change-politics In case anyone did not know, the New Yorker is a pretty left-of-center publication, so this is not Fox News saying rioting hurts Democrats. And to the one reader that gave my above post in response to Brad one star: Dear anonymous one-star voter, can you explain to me, via PM if you prefer, where my post was in error so that I may better understand how you think rioting or looting will help the cause of racial equality? Thanks I posted my misgivings about burning and looting earlier.
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