Economic Anxiety is often bandied around by people trying to justify often beyond-fascist behaviour as if morality is solely determined by money.
Or taking over downtown city blocks for months...
Quite frankly lumping in all of the protests over the summer, for example the one The Donald had tear gassed, with the looting that largely took place after dark is really saying the quiet part out loud.
If they'd protested outside the Capitol not in it, I'd be more sympathetic, even if they were campaigning for the end of American Democracy.
How many white men were strangled to death on camera, pleading "I can't breathe!"?[0]
How many white women were murdered in their bedrooms after their apartment was stormed on a dubious-at-best, no-knock warrant? [1]
Now, how many violent, white insurrectionists are getting slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanors for breaching our nation's sanctum sanctorum? [2][3][4]
Yeah, there's a double standard. It's white supremacy.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Breonna_Taylor
[2] https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2021/01/syracuse-man-arrested...
[3] https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/jenny-cudd-fbi-arres...
[4] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-of-the-arrests-...
There is no justification for the fact that imprisonment and murder of black people by the police happens, and is encouraged, to a completely disproportionate extent in the US.
It's also well understood that imprisonment in the US is run on a for-profit basis not dissimilar to slavery, and some judges have gone to prison for corrupt sentencing.
These police actions are immoral, unjust, and just plain nasty, and the best way to stop having your cities set on fire is to stop them happening.
This shouldn't be hard to understand, but in a country which has areas which are only just getting over Jim Crow and lynchings the connection between institutionally abusing some people and having them fight back seems to be too much of a reach for some of the population.
So these riots occur predictably after every avoidable trigger event. And they will continue to happen until that lesson is learned.
This is completely different to an entitled middle income mob of COS-playing couch heroes storming the political centre of the US and making credible threats against elected representatives inside it - after a speech by the president which inflamed the mob, and after a campaign of lies by the president which threatened the foundation of electoral integrity.
All very possibly at the behest of a hostile foreign power.
That's simple textbook domestic terrorism. It has no excuse or justification, and it's naive and misleading to suggest the two are somehow equivalent.
That is, by definition, actual terrorism. Attacking a civilian population to achieve a political goal. It doesn't matter how awesome or not your goal is.
You're going to find the same issue with that approach that most violent people do - people resist and fight back. Several rioters have already found out that lesson.
> This is completely different to an entitled middle...
No, not really. Insurrectionists will also discover their nonsense will not be tolerated.
> it's naive and misleading to suggest the two are somehow equivalent.
Stop using violence to achieve political ends. See? Easy.
There are real ills in society, but - ignoring that republican voters are significantly uninformed about things like the party's support for healthcare, e.g. Efforts to scrap Obamacare largely hurt poor Trump voters - that doesn't excuse them from the fact that they've swallowed the Trump Koolaid and taken part in a coup.
And besides, if you want to talk about society failing them - were there any black people in the Capitol?