Re:Why is there no theory of the just riot? (2021)
by zepto on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:34PM
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> Looters are separate from protests, they just get grouped together. Looters aren't all in close geographic distance of protests
There is no evidence of this, and all of the reporting from the BLM protests showed them together.
If you have some way to support the claim that riots and protests are somehow always distant from each other, it would be interesting to see.
> Looters aren't all in close geographic distance of protests
This seems like a straw man. We are talking about riots that co-occur with looting, of course.
In any case it doesn’t matter. Protesters could distance themselves from riots, but don’t and that is the problem.
If you're asking that everyone in viewing distance leave, I figure that'd be an area about 20 feet around. The vast majority of protestors are in that area, and cannot even see the rioting.
>The reason it doesn’t happen is because the protesters don’t in fact have a problem with the riots.
This is an oversimplification and a generalization. The logic doesn't even hold up in reality. There already are cops around the majority of large protests. There aren't looters freely destroying things beside them. Looters are separate from protests, they just get grouped together. Looters aren't all in close geographic distance of protests