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The anger is justified. Protests are justified. Maybe even violent protests, if not justified, are understandable.

Looting and burning unrelated businesses have no justification whatsoever.

>>mythrw+(OP)
This comments reads as "god save capitalism. Everything is justified unless dollars are burned in the process."

>>evanli+W1
More like "god save common sense and basic human decency"

WTF is the matter with people?

>>mythrw+b2
May you never experience the generations long frustration of any of the people driven to burn down a police station just to get their voices heard.

>>mythrw+b2
May you never experience having your livelihood burnt down because of an unrelated issue.

It seriously blows my mind anyone does think this is justified or supports it. That is way beyond reason, even from an understandably aggrieved point of view.

>>mythrw+b2
A group of people who are systematically disenfranchised witnessed a visceral oppression committed by the guardians of that system. They are now extremely upset and frustrated and expressing their anger and frustration at a system that for a long time now made snail's pace progress toward equitable treatment of them.

The police largely function as protectors of personal property and relationships of ownership. I mean, look at the very reason that the cops arrested George Floyd; an alleged fake $20 dollar bill. In a time of pandemic 4 police offers showed up to enforce the ownership of capital.

Those guys who the state dispatched to enforce the value of money then ended up killing a guy. Its quite possible that the people who are rioting and protesting feel pretty damn angry at their treatment under capitalism and don't give a damn ownership of resources right now. They might even feel angry about ownership of resources in general. This is their community, and I suspect it's not yours. They get to decide their relationship to owners of resources, not you.

>>mythrw+r3
I'm not in favor of burning and looting, but i'm not convinced it wasn't kicked off by the cops, gladio style. If we ever found that out, it won't be for decades, at which point anyone who talks about it becomes a crackpot going on about ancient history.

Once burning and looting starts, well it's like fire, or panic buying.