Not a riot

[brenda]

@jon-nyc said in Not a riot:

Nope.

https://www.fox9.com/news/jail-records-show-most-arrested-in-minneapolis-riots-have-minnesota-addresses.amp?__twitter_impression=true

From the same article:
"Speaking Saturday, Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder, however, said that sometimes people arrested will provide false information. He says background checks are showing some people arrested have records from other areas."

Interesting that there are any people from other states coming here to be in riots. I don't usually think of that as being a good guest.

[Horace]

I'm more unsettled at this nation-wide rioting than I ever was by Corona virus. I suppose I'm in the minority about that.

[89th]

These people engaging in nationwide riots are not social distancing.

[George K]

[George K]

Suspended account on Twitter, but the internet is, as they say, forever:

[Horace]

thank goodness my neighborhood is like 80% non-white.

[xenon]

Isn’t Antifa like... all white guys?

[jon-nyc]

Oh joy.

[LuFins Dad]

@xenon said in Not a riot:

Isn’t Antifa like... all white guys?

Go watch some of the videos. More and more of the violence is by whites.

[xenon]

@LuFins-Dad Seattle was almost all white dudes

[George K]

@xenon said in Not a riot:

@LuFins-Dad Seattle was almost all white dudes

Wasn't Portland also?

However, in my neighborhood, that's not the case.

[Horace]

I blame all of progressivism's evils on high status white folk who've fetishized their own moral superiority and aren't self-aware about their own pretension of being at the top of the social hierarchy. I place relatively little blame on the human tools they use as fodder in their culture wars.

[jon-nyc]

And Antifa? In your taxonomy they are clearly fodder. Do you really hold them morally unaccountable?

[Horace]

They are by and large the children of high status white folk.

[jon-nyc]

I don’t know how different they are from kids who would have fought with the Spanish Republicans in the 30s or Che’s forces in Bolivia or Angola in the 60s.

Not anywhere near as committed or brave, of course. What I mean by ‘not different’ is they’re just as deluded and have just as romanticized a view of what they’re doing.

And I don’t think they’re high status for the most part. On the contrary, and like most revolutionaries, they aspire to destroy the current order and replace it with one where they are in fact on top of the pyramid, though they are not self aware enough to realize that.

[Horace]

You think rank and file antifa has a long term goal?

I think antifa skews higher status than, say, the rest of the looters do, and they also skew whiter.

But these categories can get ridiculous since official affiliations with these groups are probably few and far between.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Not a riot:

And I don’t think they’re high status for the most part.

Yeah, probably just attorneys.

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in Not a riot:

@jon-nyc said in Not a riot:

And I don’t think they’re high status for the most part.

Yeah, probably just attorneys.

I didn't think any status was lower than attorneys....

[Mik]

Watching the local coverage now. The majority of those being arrested are white. You can tell now, on the fourth straight night, that the cops have had about enough of this. SWAT is carrying assault weapons, not rubber bullets. They were getting on the news crews too.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in Not a riot:

Watching the local coverage now. The majority of those being arrested are white. You can tell now, on the fourth straight night, that the cops have had about enough of this. SWAT is carrying assault weapons, not rubber bullets. They were getting on the news crews too.

We're soon going to see if these crowds are just trying to push the envelope because of boredom, silly liberal activism, whatever, or if they're genuinely pissed.

It must be said that the vast majority of protesters are being civil, and there are many stories of protesters and officers alike trying to police their own.

Still, though. Shit. SHOW.