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Originally Posted by PennBF
The classic enabler is "I don't condone the violence but understand why it is happening"! How can anyone understand rioters are killing people, destroying property and ruining those who are peaceful and working hard for their families.
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So then you agree that you don't condone police killing people, destroying property, and ruining those who are peaceful and working hard for their families.
Because if you include the "I understand why it's happening" part, you would admit to being an enabler.
George Floyd is not the only person this is about. It's just the spark that set off the current revolution (that's my word for it, I didn't pluck it out of a newsrag). Sophie's post above yours has a very short list of people who were, at the time of their murders, doing NOTHING violent when they were murdered. Regardless of the crimes they had committed (or believed to have committed) at the time the police got to them, they were NOT doing anything violent at those moments. Such as - being asleep in bed, at bedtime. Eating ice cream. Babysitting a nephew.
If you think you understand why it's happening, but don't condone it, then you are an enabler - according to your own standards.
Or do those standards only apply when the murderer is a minority?