TV news is bending over backwards, both Fox and rest, to distinguish and totally separate protesters and looters. It’s nice optics management, but I suspect the line between them is much fuzzier than they’re willing to admit. Same demographics, similar psychographics.
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In some ways looting is a less clueless response to belief that a system is illegitimate. Skin-in-game subversion. If protests were 100% peaceful and law-abiding with zero slippage into violence or crime, we’d call them parades. Identity performance with zero political potency.
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I don’t condone what’s going on now because I happen to believe the system is legitimate enough for me, not because I believe in some well-posed absolute moral distinction between protest and looting
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