(06-04-2020, 07:11 AM)classicdrogn Wrote: Trevor Noah advocates looting and violent protests on the Daily Show channel, because "the social contract is already broken."
What the fuck, Trevor?
The benefit of not-looting and not-violent protests is not breaking that social contract further, eroding sympathy and support for change by requiring an immediate, heavy handed response to suppress the criminal behavior and protect lives and livelihood. Advocating more violence is adding to the problem, not solving it. I don't care if you're black, white, red, yellow, or blue, harmful, criminal acts are criminal acts that do harm. No one should get away with murder, no one should get away with arson, no one should get away with assault and battery or breaking and entry or grand theft. Relevant comments begin around the eleven minute mark.
Well, the peaceful way was tried already. Remember Kapernick for example? Society already had a chance to do something, but most people just turn the other way or start crying about disrespect or whatever. Only now, when there is no other choice but to express that anger that has been bubbling under the surface the last few years that people that would prefer to keep ignoring it have started to pay attention.
Is it regrettable that it has had to reach this point? Yes. Maybe next time we won't wait so long to make sure that justice is done.
*sigh*
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg