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If someone is unhappy about not being listened to and their response is to burn down half a neighborhood in my city maybe there was a good reason we weren’t listening to everything they had to say. They don’t seem interested in reasoning, only in taking what they want by force.

The armed protesters in Michigan were being jackasses but afaik they didn’t start looting or committing arson (or even hurt anyone for that matter). There is no equivalence here, it’s just as much a bullshit “both sides” argument as the one trump made three years ago.

>>ls612+(OP)
Well, obviously that's not a reasonable first reaction, but if all the reasonable avenues of getting people's grievances addressed have not succeeded, then it's kind of inevitable that it will escalate to unreasonable responses.

>>ls612+(OP)
> If someone is unhappy about not being listened to and their response is to burn down half a neighborhood in my city maybe there was a good reason we weren’t listening to everything they had to say.

They were saying “don’t kill me”. This argument is blatantly racist.

>>ls612+(OP)
For many white people that "good reason" not to listen is simply that they are poor and black. You ignore the innate institutional racism and assume the everyone can have a civil conversation. Some people just want to hate

>>ls612+(OP)
A large number of the same people that now are saying that of course peaceful protest would have been enough and been respected (including high-ranking members of the current US administration) were insulting, ignoring, or calling for punishment for people that did peaceful protests in the past, e.g. by kneeling at football matches. What was the "good reason" to not listen then?