Once again, putting words in my mouth.

I hope you someday learn that despite the fact that you live in a strange topsy-turvy universe where you can just make up and change definitions of words like "racism", 99.99999% of everyone else still lives in the real world, where you can be racist against any race, because that's what racism actually means, right?

As long as you keep saying stupid shit, I'm going to keep calling it stupid.

It's almost like I'm not "framing" anything, simply making a statement that is objectively true.

"tbh" no it doesn't. Just because you say so doesn't make it the case. If you wanted to read them as equivalent, that's your problem.

Whoever said that is an idiot, because playing stupid word games with people doesn't make anyone right or wrong.

Yep, I agree that this is wrong.

Nope, I didn't make them equal. Simply called them both wrong.

Nice straw-man argument. Nobody here is arguing that the cops were right.

Except they are visiting violence on people who did nothing to them. And I did read the article, and that's exactly why I called it trash.

It's not a forest fire, it's people - who are, ostensibly, capable of making decisions. We can absolutely call it wrong, unwise, or immoral.

He's not concerned with angry protesters, because there's a massive difference between an angry protester and a rioting looter.

No fucking way am I buying that trash of an article - sorry, but that writer is full of shit.

Except he's not making that same argument here - he's saying that rioting and looting and assaulting random people is not how we're going to get accountability.

No, there aren't. Please point me to one argument which you think justifies random violence as a valid response to systemic corruption.

Right but you haven't actually given any reason why the things he says are wrong.

Uh… what?

I don't want to flame you because this seems reasonable, but I have a hard time swallowing the idea that I can't condemn random assaults on innocent passersby without having class thrown into the debate.

Not sure what you mean by that, but I'm absolutely sure that it's not a rational argument.

It's almost as if you think everyone should agree with every opinion you ever have, otherwise they get written off entirely.