St. Louis Riots Follow Common Script

[Ricter]

True. The ignorance of the dohluctao element regarding history is impressive, to say the least.

It may not be merely ignorance, but active resistance. Expanding their minds to more widely applicable principles would diminish the power of their negative transference object, and that frightens them--where would that energy go then?

Lol, what am I asking? If their composition is mainly "white", older, wealthier men from the South, then they have endless objects. Nevermind!

 

[Tsing Tao]

It's interesting when you consider the past for a moment, you see that the condemnation and demonization of the rioting underclass also seems to follow a script. The only things that change are the languages spoken and skin color of the participants.

So are you suggesting that people burning and rioting/destroying the community is sometimes a good thing?

 

[Ricter]

So are you suggesting that people burning and rioting/destroying the community is sometimes a good thing?

One always would hope that "righteous" rioters (I'm not stating an opinion on this instance) would pick their targets better, but they often do not. When they're organized (and successful) then we get a revolution I suppose. Some good, some bad.

 

[TGregg]

FAA makes Ferguson a No Fly Zone:

The decision to request the FAA’s help in securing flight restriction ”was made immediately when our St. Louis County Police helicopter was fired at multiple times on Sunday night,” St. Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman told The Daily Caller.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/12/f...ple-times-at-police-helicopter/#ixzz3ADW6UvBQ

 

[Tsing Tao]

One always would hope that "righteous" rioters (I'm not stating an opinion on this instance) would pick their targets better, but they often do not. When they're organized (and successful) then we get a revolution I suppose. Some good, some bad.

Very interesting. So what is your opinion on this particular circumstance? Is it "righteous"? If not, when was the last riot that destroyed property that you considered righteous?

 

[dbphoenix]

One always would hope that "righteous" rioters (I'm not stating an opinion on this instance) would pick their targets better, but they often do not. When they're organized (and successful) then we get a revolution I suppose. Some good, some bad.

Storming the Bastille, for example. Or the Boston Tea Party. Don't know how many Negroes were involved there. Then of course there were the Irish in New York.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Storming the Bastille, for example. Or the Boston Tea Party. Don't know how many Negroes were involved there. Then of course there were the Irish in New York.

Ah, so you consider those to be righteous rioting? (I know I asked Ricter - but I suspect he will take evasive action on that topic) Are there any more recent examples you can provide? Like in the last 100 years or so?

 

[CaptainObvious]

"The answer isn’t looting, no. The answer isn’t rioting, no. But the answer also isn’t preaching to black people about “black-on-black” crime without full acknowledgment that most crime is intrarracial."

This is complete bullshit. Black on black violent crime is exponentially higher than interracial crime. Jeffrey Dahmer would have had to eaten several hundred black guys a year just to keep up with the crime in Chicago. The following is somewhat dated, but I seriously doubt the percentages have changes much.
http://www.colorofcrime.com/colorofcrime2005.html

Crime Rates

• Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery.
• When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife.
• Hispanics commit violent crimes at roughly three times the white rate, and Asians commit violent crimes at about one quarter the white rate.
• The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of the population that is black and Hispanic.

Interracial Crime

• Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.
• Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.
• Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
• Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa

 

[Tsing Tao]

"The answer isn’t looting, no. The answer isn’t rioting, no. But the answer also isn’t preaching to black people about “black-on-black” crime without full acknowledgment that most crime is intrarracial."

This is complete bullshit.

Precisely.

 

[Ricter]

You can talk to power until you're blue in the face and nothing will change. But violence works, it gets people's attention like nothing else. Dissent is typically messy, whether organized, successful, or not.