{"id":238890,"date":"2021-04-30T02:28:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T23:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/working-class-people-of-color-hate-the-riots-the-lefty-elite-keeps-cheering\/"},"modified":"2021-04-30T02:28:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T23:28:01","slug":"working-class-people-of-color-hate-the-riots-the-lefty-elite-keeps-cheering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/working-class-people-of-color-hate-the-riots-the-lefty-elite-keeps-cheering\/","title":{"rendered":"#Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering<\/strong>”
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When Americans fight about race or culture, the fight is almost always really about social<\/a> class.\u00a0And that shows up in today\u2019s discussions about riots and policing.<\/p>\n

The Daily Caller recently sent<\/a> a video correspondent to Brooklyn Center, Minn., scene of many police-shooting-related riots, and to Washington, DC, home of America\u2019s ruling class, and asked people in both places when and if rioting was justified.\u00a0The answers differed sharply.<\/p>\n

In Brooklyn Center, where the destruction was visible firsthand, respondents (nearly all black men of various ages) overwhelmingly opposed rioting. An African-American man in an \u201cArmy Veteran\u201d hat commented:\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re human, and we want to be treated with respect,\u201d but we also need to show \u201crespect.\u201d<\/p>\n

A man in construction gear remarked:\u00a0\u201cI guarantee you the people that were looting, nine times out of 10, weren\u2019t from this area. . . . If you feel the need to lash out, then don\u2019t get mad when people, you know, address you as a looter or a rioter.\u201d<\/p>\n

A woman in a Black Lives Matter mask agreed:\u00a0\u201cThese are two different things:\u00a0We have protesters, and then we have rioters.\u201d<\/p>\n

The people of Brooklyn Center seemed to hold a pretty nuanced view about the difference between protest and destruction.<\/p>\n

On the streets of Washington, on the other hand, support for riots among the capital\u2019s bourgeoisie was almost universal.\u00a0One young woman said that \u201cif change needs to be made, and it\u2019s not getting done in the traditional avenues, then rioting is a good option.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another opined, \u201cI think that all violence is bad violence, but in the case where systems aren\u2019t responding to any other forms of change, I can understand people getting frustrated to the point where they need to take other avenues.\u201d<\/p>\n

A third commented that looting is \u201cvery small compared to\u201d the \u201csystemic oppression\u201d in America. Many more echoed such views.<\/p>\n

At one level, the gap is surprising:\u00a0The \u201coppressed\u201d seem less enthusiastic about riots than those who worry about their oppression.\u00a0At another level, it\u2019s not surprising:\u00a0The people whose neighborhoods are being destroyed are less sanguine about the destruction than are those who observe it from the comfortable environs of our nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

(The Caller did manage to interview one black man in DC who commented that \u201cpeaceful protest has more impact on what\u2019s going on.\u201d)<\/p>\n

But this is mostly a class divide.\u00a0The women interviewed in DC share the up-talk and vocal fry that characterize well-off, college-educated young women today.\u00a0They aren\u2019t people who run or depend on small businesses that can be ruined by one night of destruction; they aren\u2019t people whose wages might suffer from business closures following mass violence.\u00a0They speak in the most abstract of tones.<\/p>\n

We saw this in the 1960s with the rise of \u201cradical chic,\u201d in which (as the writer Tom Wolfe memorably noted), tony Upper-East-Side types shared cocktails with Black Panthers.\u00a0Many of the most violent New Left revolutionaries of the 1960s and \u201970s were the privileged children of wealthy parents.\u00a0And even today, there\u2019s a lot of voyeurism among those encouraging violence.<\/p>\n

Last year, sports reporter Chris Martin Palmer became the face of this sort of thing when he tweeted a photo of a burning building in Minneapolis with the caption \u201cBurn that s\u2013t down!\u201d (The burning structure giving him voyeuristic tingles was, it turned out, a low-income housing project, the Minnehaha Commons affordable-housing project.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Palmer\u2019s tune changed when rioters came to his neighborhood.\u00a0He fumed: \u201cThe[y] destroyed\u00a0a Starbucks and are now in front of my building.\u00a0Get these animals [the f\u2013k] out of my neighborhood. Go back to where you live.\u201d<\/p>\n

The thing is, it\u2019s a lot easier to encourage violence when the consequences happ<\/a>en to someone else.\u00a0Too much of upper-class America is cocooned from real risk.\u00a0For the people in poor and working-class neighborhoods where riots and looting tend to happen, the consequences are much more apparent.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the cavalier attitude of so many Democrats toward riots makes sense.\u00a0Democrats are now the party of Wall Street, Silicon Valley and upscale suburbs.\u00a0The people who have to deal with consequences will have to go somewhere else politically.\u00a0And they will.<\/p>\n

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the \u00adInstaPundit.com blog.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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