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Originally Posted by dobbles
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....
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I'm not confusing them though, I respect and would protect people's rights to protest, especially something terrible like this. I'm specifically calling out the rioters and looters though as bad actors. The only blurring happening are the people who are defending both behaviours as just.