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Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Any trival thing can escalate into violence depending on who’s involved in the situation.



We have seen people beaten to death because the person thought the other person was looking at them in a certain way.



You feel so strongly against the death sentence but you are more than happy to excuse violence because some one was racially abused.



Being black does not give you any one more rights to use violence because they have abused for being black.

I actually agree, suffering racist (or any other) abuse doesn't excuse violent response and I think that's what we're being asked to accept; that it changes the game, that it makes it something that should be accepted, because of exceptional circumstances.

I can appreciate that it explains the violent response, and with a little prompting from Kizzy I can even appreciate that it explains why some people are quicker to want to accept/excuse/applaud the use of violence...

But when you boil it right down, no one has the "right" to retaliate with violence, it is not and will never be the right or excusable choice (even if you can empathise and offer understanding for it) and it should never be applauded or encouraged. Even if you can understand why some people might be tempted to encourage and applaud it, people shouldn't feel "shoved out" of the ability to say that that too is the wrong choice and not the right way forward.

The response that "privileged people can't tell others that applauding violence isn't the way" is nonsensical and dangerous.