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Is there a double Standard in America's reaction to riots?

Is there a double Standard in America's reaction to riots?

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11 Stunning Images Highlight the Double Standard of Reactions to Riots Like Baltimore - Mic

I don't condone anything that is happening in Baltimore, but it is always fascinating how quickly black people are condemned racially for committing atrocities committed by every other race.

How amplified their actions are perceived in comparison to when other races do the same thing. You see it here on DP and youtube and other sites.

Nigger this - Nigger that. Monkey this - Monkey that and blanket statements a plenty.

Commentary that is never seen in regards to riots comprised of primarily white citizens who are, often, rioting over, in comparison, very trivial and mundane events.

So my question is - Is there a double standard in how we view "white" riots and "black" riots?



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Nigger this - Nigger that. Monkey this - Monkey that and blanket statements a plenty.

You really, really like to use racial slurs about African-Americans, don't you? Despicable.
 
You really, really like to use racial slurs about African-Americans, don't you? Despicable.

No, actually I don't. Don't know how you could have possibly got that impression. Perhaps reread the OP without stripping away the context?
 
Context.






Question.



Do you believe that had Zimorman been convicted of murder in FL, there would have been riots?
 
No. I don't think there would have been. Not by African Americans at least.

Or by white people. An important understanding to come to, IMO.





What was the last instance of specifically white people rioting in the streets, if you could?


Occupy Wallstreet? Hardly a riot.
 
Or by white people. An important understanding to come to, IMO.





What was the last instance of specifically white people rioting in the streets, if you could?


Occupy Wallstreet? Hardly a riot.

Get to the meat of your point please.
 
Get to the meat of your point please.

My point is, you have provided a series of images depicting white people rioting, but I want some context for those images.


I am unaware of specifically white people rioting for any particular reason in our recent history.

Yet to are trying to draw parallels to the behaviors of white and black people.

If white people have not rioted within our recent history, no such parallel can be drawn, and no other facet of your argument (then being a straw man) needs be addressed.


In other words, show me the money, lol. Show me how white's truly have acted the same as blacks.


Sounds racist, but again, back that up with some facts, and I'll back right down. I am unaware of any white riots (other than the band from the 70s) of late, over any particular issue, unless you count the occupy wall street movement, which I would hardly qualify as rioting.
 
My point is, you have provided a series of images depicting white people rioting, but I want some context for those images.


I am unaware of specifically white people rioting for any particular reason in our recent history.

Yet to are trying to draw parallels to the behaviors of white and black people.

If white people have not rioted within our recent history, no such parallel can be drawn, and no other facet of your argument (then being a straw man) needs be addressed.


In other words, show me the money, lol. Show me how white's truly have acted the same as blacks.


Sounds racist, but again, back that up with some facts, and I'll back right down. I am unaware of any white riots (other than the band from the 70s) of late, over any particular issue, unless you count the occupy wall street movement, which I would hardly qualify as rioting.

Well I provided you with a link and video that gave you context to the pictures and even if I hadn't provided you with the links I'm not sure how the images of white people setting things on fire and looting are not enough "evidence" for white people showing the same capacity for violence and rioting as blacks. Why do I have to go an extra length to qualify their actions? Under what circumstance is it ok to destroy public property and burglerize the city around you?

I mean really thank you for proving my point.

Here are more White people rioting, admittibly outside of the u.s but Caucasians all the same -





 
11 Stunning Images Highlight the Double Standard of Reactions to Riots Like Baltimore - Mic

I don't condone anything that is happening in Baltimore, but it is always fascinating how quickly black people are condemned racially for committing atrocities committed by every other race.

How amplified their actions are perceived in comparison to when other races do the same thing. You see it here on DP and youtube and other sites.

Nigger this - Nigger that. Monkey this - Monkey that and blanket statements a plenty.

Commentary that is never seen in regards to riots comprised of primarily white citizens who are, often, rioting over, in comparison, very trivial and mundane events.

So my question is - Is there a double standard in how we view "white" riots and "black" riots?



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Not only that double standard but also the double standard that it's mostly alright for people to riot in countries we don't like, they're freedom fighters right up until they become our enemies.
 
People who do that are ALL thugs and savages. I don't give a damn what color rioters are--if they commit felonies, as many do, they should be prosecuted aggressively. And any that are convicted should be punished as severely as the law allows. Rioting is an attack on civil society itself, and the crimes involved are especially deplorable for that reason.

Anyone who does not own a firearm should get one and learn how to hit the target with it. People who choose to act like savages should expect to get treated accordingly.
 
11 Stunning Images Highlight the Double Standard of Reactions to Riots Like Baltimore - Mic

I don't condone anything that is happening in Baltimore, but it is always fascinating how quickly black people are condemned racially for committing atrocities committed by every other race.

How amplified their actions are perceived in comparison to when other races do the same thing. You see it here on DP and youtube and other sites.

Nigger this - Nigger that. Monkey this - Monkey that and blanket statements a plenty.

Commentary that is never seen in regards to riots comprised of primarily white citizens who are, often, rioting over, in comparison, very trivial and mundane events.

So my question is - Is there a double standard in how we view "white" riots and "black" riots?



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well most of the rioters in seattle's annual mayday riot are white as lillys, and no one really likes them either.
 
Or by white people. An important understanding to come to, IMO.





What was the last instance of specifically white people rioting in the streets, if you could?


Occupy Wallstreet? Hardly a riot.

Vancouver,2011
Manchester, 2008
 
Not really no. A riot is a riot, whether it is perpetrated by particular ethnic groups, by political extremists, drunken hooligans, ...
 
11 Stunning Images Highlight the Double Standard of Reactions to Riots Like Baltimore - Mic

I don't condone anything that is happening in Baltimore, but it is always fascinating how quickly black people are condemned racially for committing atrocities committed by every other race.

How amplified their actions are perceived in comparison to when other races do the same thing. You see it here on DP and youtube and other sites.

Nigger this - Nigger that. Monkey this - Monkey that and blanket statements a plenty.

Commentary that is never seen in regards to riots comprised of primarily white citizens who are, often, rioting over, in comparison, very trivial and mundane events.

So my question is - Is there a double standard in how we view "white" riots and "black" riots?



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It really isn't politically very correct. There are no persons of obese stature in the pictures you selected. Shame!
 
it really isn't politically very correct. There are no persons of obese stature in the pictures you selected. Shame!
:lol:
 
You have to ask yourself just how one's political reservations are addressed and resolved by smashing a store window and stealing a TV. Rioters are opportunist ****heads.
 
I'm not sure if there is a double standard. There may be in some aspects. There is a difference in riots in poor communities where unrest lasts for days over social issues and sports riots that are fueled by alcohol and last a night with sports fans going back to other lives the next day. I'm not trying to justify either but the national news media marshals for the former and local news crews generally cover the latter so the impact on the nation is different.
 
I'm not sure if there is a double standard. There may be in some aspects. There is a difference in riots in poor communities where unrest lasts for days over social issues and sports riots that are fueled by alcohol and last a night with sports fans going back to other lives the next day. I'm not trying to justify either but the national news media marshals for the former and local news crews generally cover the latter so the impact on the nation is different.

This is what I was trying to get at last night.


That there are not specifically "WHITE" riots, or "BLACK" riots...but that the line is down down economic factors, and that it just so happens that many riots committed by poorer groups are populated by a lot of black people.
 
I've now heard several interviews of rioters, mostly from Ferguson, but most recently, from Baltimore. And they unanimously believe that causing destruction and mayhem gets their ire noticed. People looting? Those are almost NEVER the people that START the riot, they are just seizing an opportunity. But there is an economic double standard THERE, as well. If we were to consider 2008 to have been a giant riot, then we must consider all those who willfully plunged this country into ruin for money to be looters, and yet we don't treat them the same. This has NOTHING at all to do with color.

You say that rioting is a scum move...I say that it's sometimes and unfortunate necessity. Due to the crap in Ferguson, now the police force there is under NATIONAL scrutiny, and it absolutely WOULDN'T have been had there been nothing there to make national headlines for a couple days or weeks.

Riots are not the problem, they are merely a symptom. The problem is, americans feels that this is the only way to truly get their voice heard. We don't have millions to lay on politics, so we don't typically have our elected officials ear. Or eyes. Peaceful protests will only get you so far, and if someone wanted to badly enough, they can simply sabotage those, as we saw with the Occupy Wallstreet protests. And what changed? Nothing. Do you think if we had firebombed a few of the million dollar cars driven by the very people that have, and are still, squeezing the life out of this country, we would have gotten a little more change? Or if we wrecked a few banks?


Hard to say. But what I CAN say for certain is, simply sitting there peacefully didn't do jack ****.
 
This is what I was trying to get at last night.


That there are not specifically "WHITE" riots, or "BLACK" riots...but that the line is down down economic factors, and that it just so happens that many riots committed by poorer groups are populated by a lot of black people.

Racial indignation causes some riots, but at the end of the day much of the activity is an opportunity to steal. I don't personally know how much retail theft happens during sports riots.
 
Racial indignation causes some riots, but at the end of the day much of the activity is an opportunity to steal. I don't personally know how much retail theft happens during sports riots.

Looters =/= rioters.


And what's the difference between stolen goods, and destroyed goods?
 
Oh yes. Very much so. Its obvious.
 
My point is, you have provided a series of images depicting white people rioting, but I want some context for those images.


I am unaware of specifically white people rioting for any particular reason in our recent history.

Yet to are trying to draw parallels to the behaviors of white and black people.

If white people have not rioted within our recent history, no such parallel can be drawn, and no other facet of your argument (then being a straw man) needs be addressed.


In other words, show me the money, lol. Show me how white's truly have acted the same as blacks.

Is Oct 2014 "recent"?

 
Looters =/= rioters.


And what's the difference between stolen goods, and destroyed goods?

It depends on what we are talking about. Burning a police car sends a political message. Stealing a big screen does not.
 
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