I don't pretend to have the answers, (although I know rioting/looting on either side is not it,) but what happened to being able to have civil discourse? Extremist (on both sides,) and the ability to spread conspiracy theories (thanks to social media) definitely fans the flames.
This site for example- there are a few users that resort to name calling which is no different than a second grader saying "I know you are but what am I!!!" I do appreciate how the lot of this thread has been mature discussion, coming from folks with very different views and opinions.
Fingers crossed that the bitch named 'Rona is erradicated soon and we can get back to bitching about soccer!
There has never been civil discourse as it relates to race. That is just a farce and always has been. I know white folk look back longingly to the “civil” days when black people knew their place and all, but that’s b.s. Shooting black people on bridges in Selma, hanging them from trees, beating them to death for sitting at a lunch counter or the wrong part of a bus, or allegedly looking at a white woman, denying equal employment and educational opportunities, none of that was ever civil.
If you or anyone wants civility, you need to first understand why we lack it, why we’ve always lacked it. Then you’ll understand why people burn down Wendy’s and also storm the Capitol, and which is motivated by a laudable purpose even if you disagree with the methods, and which is for a despicable purpose that too many people here are far too willing to appease, rationalize and even defend. Then you will further understand why civility is not possible and why the only hope is to force magats back into their swamps and under the rocks where cockroaches should hide.
Jean Valjean is not the same as the squash-colored s**tbag although both stole. The 1935 Berlin Riots had a reprehensible purpose, while Nat Turner’s Rebellion did not. Saying all riots are the same and the reason they occurred is irrelevant is utter crap.