[user104658]

Premises of the video:

1) That the civil unrest is only about George Floyd - False

2) That the looting is intended as a political statement - False

3) That there's "no one" who sides with the police on police brutality - False (even right here on TiBB)

4) That the officers involved in George Floyd's death being arrested cancels out the countless other examples of injustice, or makes it unlikely that the same thing or similar will happen again - False


He ignores the ongoing issues. He ignores the countless examples heavy-handed (sometimes plain cruel) police tactics that have been used all across America since this started. He doesn't understand that looting/burning/destuction during civil unrest is a symptom of societal breakdown, and that it isn't part of a plan and it "not making sense" absolutely does not mean that it isn't indicative of a massive systemic problem.

tl;dr he's confused because he doesn't personally understand what civil unrest is or why it happens, and he manages to rant about that for several minutes.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Premises of the video:

1) That the civil unrest is only about George Floyd - False

2) That the looting is intended as a political statement - False

3) That there's "no one" who sides with the police on police brutality - False (even right here on TiBB)

4) That the officers involved in George Floyd's death being arrested cancels out the countless other examples of injustice, or makes it unlikely that the same thing or similar will happen again - False


He ignores the ongoing issues. He ignores the countless examples heavy-handed (sometimes plain cruel) police tactics that have been used all across America since this started. He doesn't understand that looting/burning/destuction during civil unrest is a symptom of societal breakdown, and that it isn't part of a plan and it "not making sense" absolutely does not mean that it isn't indicative of a massive systemic problem.

tl;dr he's confused because he doesn't personally understand what civil unrest is or why it happens, and he manages to rant about that for several minutes.

This.
He’s either completely clueless about the actual issues or he’s just completely ignoring them for some clout, I’m going with the latter, the same as that Candace Owens

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Liam-

This.
He’s either completely clueless about the actual issues or he’s just completely ignoring them for some clout, I’m going with the latter, the same as that Candace Owens

I'd go with a mix of both. I think people genuinely are confused about what looting has to do with justice and are hyper-focussed on the specifics of the things people are doing, because they don't understand that these things (opportunistic looting, civil disobedience, disregard for the law) go hand-in-hand with societal breakdown - always have, in every example throughout history - and that societal breakdown is always... ALWAYS... the fault of those in authority. It literally cannot be anyone else's fault.

However that is compounded by confirmation bias and people simply not wanting to make the effort to understand it.

You can't blame people for being uneducated on things like history, sociology, social psychology, gang mentality et al... You absolutely can blame them for being willfully ignorant to suit their own bias and agenda.

[Denver]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I'd go with a mix of both. I think people genuinely are confused about what looting has to do with justice and are hyper-focussed on the specifics of the things people are doing, because they don't understand that these things (opportunistic looting, civil disobedience, disregard for the law) go hand-in-hand with societal breakdown - always have, in every example throughout history - and that societal breakdown is always... ALWAYS... the fault of those in authority. It literally cannot be anyone else's fault.

However that is compounded by confirmation bias and people simply not wanting to make the effort to understand it.

You can't blame people for being uneducated on things like history, sociology, social psychology, gang mentality et al... You absolutely can blame them for being willfully ignorant to suit their own bias and agenda.

Candace is just scum though she pretty much said George deserved to die and people shouldn't feel sorry for him and protest in his name