I’m not refusing to acknowledge it’s relevance. In fact, I said it was relevant. What I am doing is placing its relevance in a proper context. Not every police work stoppage results in a riot! Sometimes policing LEADS to riots! Ablolishing or defunding the police would be much different than what happens when there…

Uh huh. And sometimes riots are caused directly by policing, so...

Well, yeah, riots have a tendency to diverge from the status quo.

I’m not saying Bakunin is right or anarchism is a sound social system on a large scale.  I’m saying that Steven Pinker isn’t a terribly impressive critical thinker, and must have never really thought through what anarchism means in general or specifically Bakunin’s form of anarchism if he thought what happened over…

I think what you would do differently are things like “planning” and “expand social support” and other stuff. Steven Pinker isn’t as rigorous a thinker as he presents, and didn’t really actually grasp the concepts of anarchism, if that one anecdotal experience, which isn’t really what anarchism is after, causes him to…

You’ll have to excuse me if I give a major side eye to your attempt to lecture me on scientific rigor, given your original contribution to this discussion a broad, definitive, unsubstantiated assertion that you were unable to support. The study’s conclusions are in the abstract. Sure, ideally you’d critically evaluate…

Of course you haven’t seen any evidence for it, because you don’t know what you’re talking about! Even caveated, you haven’t really presented any robust evidence that supports your definitive assertion that specific types of crimes rise sharply during police strikes, you’ve just produced a couple of isolated…

Yeah, I’m not sure isolated examples are sufficient to state your case as definitively as you’ve stated it. The abstract of the paper gives you the gist of the paper, I think it’s pretty clear.

I’m curious what evidence you have for this assertion, because I haven’t been able to find anything that makes this argument anywhere nearly as definitively as you have.

Comey the Bat 

What are you referring to when you refer to Hooverville?  The depression-era shanty towns?

Violent crime happens in a lot of areas where the police are around. Hell, authorities themselves are often responsible for instigating unrest (see Portland). Police are also pretty frequently responsible for extensive property damage. One way or another, I’m not sure I’d take the experience of a few blocks where…

cool, enjoy your weekend!

Hey, whatever you have to tell yourself to dismiss the opinion of someone who offered a simple, basic counter that you don’t want to engage with because it undermines your shallow worldview. If thinking I’m lying about my race and lived experience (???), along with policing my tone and openly lying about whether I’m…

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Because they are teenagers who have been raised a particular way with particular values, and probably all of the adults who they look up to and bear on those decisions, like their parents, have values that align with these sorts of schools.

I can’t force you to continue this conversation, homey. All I am doing is replying to you. That is how a dialog works! You are free to not reply, and there is also a dismiss button. (Incidentally, you might want to examine why you insist on continuing a conversation you purport to find so distasteful, but…

You talk about race a lot with who? Other white people who agree with you?

Or, if you find yourself agreeing with Trump, maybe rethink things. Why shouldn’t China, or Russia, or any other adversary, use the same logic against American companies?

No. What I am is someone who recognizes the games little white boys like you play. You aren’t nearly as clever or unique as you think you are. In fact you’re wildly transparent. We are deep into this conversation, with you responding every step of the way. And yet you refuse to talk about the one thing you opened…