From reddit: ...rioting happens when you are full of rage and no logical or rational outlets appear to exist to release it. Everyone is focusing on SPECIFICALLY just this case. Riots dont happen over a single shooting. Riots are a symptom of a disease that festers, untreated, for a long long time. The real issue - harassment of citizens by people sworn to protect them, specifically treating minorities as if they are assumed guilty and need to prove innocence (see NYCs stop and frisk laws). This is a real issue that has been systematically underplayed, ignored or even supported by the justice system and law enforcement. Many people deny that this harassment and violence by law enforcement even exists as an issue. See for example, most comments in this thread. When communities cant even get a major issue recognized as an issue at all, rage explodes and has no proper legal outlet. The courts wont help, the politicians wont help and the cops wont help. What is left after all logical recourse is gone? Riots are illogical rage explosions when all hope is lost. Understanding them isnt a justification of them. But to offhandedly dismiss them as ignorant, stupid, illogical, etc. is to continue to ignore a festering disease. Doesnt that illogical action sound like the action of desperate people out of solutions? ...if you look at any riot ever this is exactly why they were rioting. Think French Revolution. Think Rodney King. Think even of the Boston Tea Party. They all happened because the system either ignored or supported the disenfranchisement of these groups of people.. they had no other outlet or solution.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 01:40:33 +0000
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