• yawn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Terrorism is violence towards people, riots are violence towards property, that’s a hell of a leap to try to equivocate the two

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      One becomes the other pretty frequently and pretty easily.

      See May 28, 2020 in Minneapolis where, connected to the ongoing protests Montez Terriel Lee burned down Max It Pawn Shop. There’s literally video footage of him pouring the accelerant, lighting it, and standing outside the burning building saying something to the effect of “Fuck this place. We’re gonna burn this shit down.”. Folks like you basically cheered the footage on social media.

      It was almost two months later before we found out the building wasn’t empty when he burned it down, when authorities found a body in the rubble. ME said he died from thermal injury and smoke inhalation, aka he was burned to death. Which is a horrible way to go. So “the voice of the unheard” delivered the message “Were gonna burn this shit down” over a human barbecue.

      • Varixable@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Weird time to bring up the “BLM burned down whole cities, and antifa killed my dog” boogymam, but…okay?