I appreciate the counterargument.
I would never advocate looting, especially of small/family businesses.
The part of Los Angeles where I live has been hit hard by looting this weekend, including many small businesses, and its painful to see.
I would highly prefer peaceful protesting and peaceful policing.
But there is really no comparison of a line item on a multibillion dollar balance sheet--the linked video is all luxury multinationals--with peoples' actual real lives.
The response of "what about the looters?" is a distraction from exactly that.
> The response of "what about the looters?" is a distraction from exactly that.
Yup.
And I personally think that a lot of the violence isn't the average protesters who care about police accountability, but people who are just using protests as an excuse to wreak havoc with less chance of being singled out for arrest.
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