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Originally Posted by Weitz
Has anyone done this?
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No. No one was lumping the opportunistic rioters in with the other protestors, either - the first thing I did in my post (which transplant was agreeing with there) was to point out that difference. Plenty of straw men being hastily built in here. Case in point...
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Originally Posted by octothorp
I have a huge problem with the expectation that black people are supposed to stop other black people from criminal activity here.
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No one has said anything remotely similar to this, either.
I honestly resent the way that Rube argues about these issues. It's just all emotionally charged hyperbole (the "systemic murder of an entire race of people"), unfair and un-nuanced caricatures of what other people are saying, and accusations of racism and not being concerned with police violence, as if you can't be opposed to two things at once. It's just a rhetorical smokescreen to disguise the fact that he doesn't really have a tenable argument. It's galling that he'll take personal shots at peoples' motivations and try to cast them as uncaring monsters to cover up his own inability to think clearly on these topics. I get that this makes you angry and upset, I can understand that reaction, but it's really no excuse.