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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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...
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.
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I got the impression that Dirac was doing just that in his post. So while you personally may not be saying so, I wouldn't classify it as a strawman or anything.
My life experiences show me that many people are unable to differentiate between legitimate protesters and opportunist looters when both groups happen to be of the same skin color. I honestly don't believe there would be much overlap in the venn diagram of those two groups. But for many in the states, seeing a black man looting invalidates all of the black men protesting. Call it anecdotal, but there is a reason we keep having these same problems....