Even if you assume that MLK, et al *wanted* white violence rather than designing a strategy to render it counterproductive, you must still accept that rioting is the polar opposite of this approach & will fail for the same reasons Bull Connor failed. https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1266362360102555649 …
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The bait-and-switch, however, is that the left's defenses of riots are all about "can we sympathize with the intentions"? This is a dodge, & an infantilizing one. Either you think the act is morally justifiable or not - same as if we were debating, say, voting for Trump.
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Nobody who's defending riots would ever want to live in the middle of one.
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The tactical and/or strategic reason is to rape, murder, arson, and rape civilian areas is to sow fear and to create a deterrent effect against refusing to obey. These looters ain't freedom fighters. They are wannabe tyrants.
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Collective punishment is a war crime.
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Remind me what was the justification American used in Vietnam?
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