06-03-2020, 02:20 PMjRuutu Wrote: Would you agree that looting/rioting have been the main points when it comes down to how the events have been presented in media and in social media lately? How can you judge people who have trouble understanding the logic behind it? All I see is an excuse to go crazy and do wild things, I read comments here and more so around the web that pretty clearly support the riots and looting, which only makes my head spin around faster. Right now I can pretend to understand that there are real, deep and complicated issues behind it all, I say pretend because I still don´t understand how you go from looting/rioting to actually changing things that people are rioting/protesting for.

So do you notice how literally everyone is talking about these issues that have been explained to you as the main reasons for the protests?

How much did they talk about them before?

It's something that nobody, really - politicians included - can escape from now. Before, people could easily turn a blind eye to institutional racism. At least for right now, they can't. So it is forcing the issues to be at the top of everyone's mind, to dominate discussions. And with major elections occurring right now and over the next handful of months, you can be sure that it will be a major issue people vote on, when it really was not before.

Whether or not it produces meaningful policy change remains to be seen. But this is probably the closest we've ever gotten to institutional racism being a mainstream topic that is actually taken seriously and not just given a few words of lip service to and then we all move on.