Why is everyone supporting the Protests - From Celebs, to your favorite streams, even giant corperations

[Immortal Technique]

It's fun to watch other countries go up in flames lol

I wanna be MATI, but then I do laugh when other countries are doing dumb shit. Fair is fair.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Because it's funny.

 

[Strange Wilderness]

Cheap virtue signalling chasing a trend. They see how social media is nothing but talking about the riots protests and want to get some exposure for themselves by allying with whatever s trending on Twitter, which happens to be supporting the violence and destruction. Think about when a major world event happens like the Olympics, commercials become all about sports and international cooperation, streamers play sports games, clickbait farms pump out listicles about previous Olympics, all for pandering to the masses who are all talking about the Olympics. It helps that a lot of people have doublethinked themselves into both supporting the violence and saying these are peaceful protests so you can put out a statement or commercial supporting the riots without fear of major backlash.

 

[tehpope]

I support it because I want to forget the coronas and see idiots get into trouble.

Well wanting to watch the world burn is one thing.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Well wanting to watch the world burn is one thing.

I want to watch you burn.

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

Thanks to Corona Lockdown, many people have tense feelings, are bored and don't have the capacity to properly process feelings in the first place so once someone threw a brick at a shop, everyone followed suit so they can get out of the house for a bit and hope to get away with crime.

Why people support it? Because a black man was actually wrongfully killed by a cop and instead of presenting numerous cases of police brutality, they clutch onto this one to make a non-existing point that cops are facists. THAT murder was wrong and sensible people can agree but SJWs are blowing the situation WAY out of proportion to virtue signal and if you call them out on it, Cancel Culture will bite your arse. SJWs defend riots to the core because they don't have the word power to change people's minds so they use this fear to manipulate arse-kissing celebs to agree with them or they'll get called a racist.

It's power, basically. No sensible person agrees with the riots but Twitter demands it.

cant forget the record unemployment too. many people locked down have no jobs so why not take a drive and try to loot some free shit

the protests are fine. they're for a good cause. and i'd even say it's fine if people get a bit rowdy and violent, and many people who think that will support the protests and look the other way when a few bad actors do dumb and violent shit (just look at how much hk protesters are willing to tolerate from their own side), but the amount of indiscriminate, senseless destruction we're seeing is completely out of control. it's simply unconscionable to support the cause, the protests, the police marching with protesters, etc., but not simultaneously condemn the indiscriminate violence and looting.

 

[Baguette Child]

the protests are fine. they're for a good cause.

I've been told on facebook that burning down my used bookstore was 100% for a good cause and a valid form of protest. Who cares that a first generation immigrant got screwed over and lost everything he owns, it really makes a statement the cops can't ignore when we burn down small businesses that have nothing to do with the murder.


Sarcasm off; I was in agreement with the idea of protests, because the video of that man being killed disgusted me, but that's not what any of this is. There are no legitimate protests going on anymore, it's all just wanton violence. They are using Floyd's death as an excuse to do evil, vicious things and that isn't right. Period.

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

They most likely want to virtue-signal to their fellow progressives by defending and justifying the actions of the looters, so they can get some free asspats and good publicity from their ilk. Either that or they want to justify stealing a TV from Target. Either or.

 

[raspberry mocha]

The folks who just want to loot are whatever. Hoodrats gonna hood. Do not pretend you are making some sort of political statement, get your loot and jump the fence. The LARPers who think the revolution is now are cringey autists and need to be held accountable. The hashtag activist celebrities low key bragging about their donation funding clout are scum, but what else is new?

 

[FlappyBat]

Because the people against the riots won't organize a boycott and the people in support of them will.

 

[PinstripeLuns]

they get cancelled if they don't

not so much by the public at large, but by their personal in-group. remember that these people all run in circles that are dominated by turbo leftists.

This. I know a guy who's in music and he has to come out and support the protests, riots, etc because he knows he's going to be cancelled or whatever if he doesn't.

 

[PowerWomon]

Literally no one, not even the people condoning the riots as "the voice of the unheard", is saying this.
EDIT: Random lunatics on Twitter don't count; I know for a fact that there are at minimum five different people on Twitter arguing for the legalization of cannibalism.

Maybe they think that "cannibalism" derives from "cannabis" and they are just for pot legalization.

 

[Niggernerd]

Asspats and they know they'll get shit if they stay out of it.

 

[PowerWomon]

Cheap virtue signalling chasing a trend. They see how social media is nothing but talking about the riots protests and want to get some exposure for themselves by allying with whatever s trending on Twitter, which happens to be supporting the violence and destruction.

That's pretty much it. There are basically only two sides a lot of times in politics, with both sides running to the most extreme end of the spectrum, completely polarized.

"You are either with us or against us."

The "progressive" side picked the rioters. There can't be nuance, there can't be anything between. That is also why they seem to hold so many contradictory positions, such as simultaneous support of Islam and LGBT, supposedly. It's not about logical consistency, it is about political alliances first and foremost. Agree with whomever you are politically allied with. That is about as simple as this heuristic works.

People work like this a lot of times. Alliances form wherever people meet. You will see this even in circles where people proclaim to ostensibly against this form of petty social games. But status and ingroup signifiers can be found everywhere, particularly on social media and Internet platforms. Many of these platforms are practially geared towards signaling and establishing consensus. Like and dislike functionality is an example of this, and the more pronounced these mechanisms are in a given forum the quicker echo chambers form. Twitter is an extreme case of it. Reddit does the same thing by prioritizing what is popular and hiding posts with "negative scores". Many other examples abound, but "reaction" functionality is usually the hallmark of such consensus driven platforms, which is why I think modern social media and many other places with such functionality are absolute cancer.

 

[Recoil]

There would be no riots if Twitter didn't exist.

 

[PowerWomon]

Asspats and they know they'll get shit if they stay out of it.

Yes and no. Increasingly, this is breaking down because there is simply no pleasing these people. Example:

David Guetta Criticised For Tone Deaf “Shout Out” To George Floyd’s Family Behind The Decks

Damned if you do, damned of you don't. Although, in this particular case I think they are mostly jumping on the guy for a faux pas related to language proficiency. He meant to express "condolences" but because he is not a native English speaker he said "shout out to Floyd's family" which people tore into in all the progressive circles.

The biggest allies also get abused most. It's gaslighting and sort of what an abuser in a relationship would do. It's most of all about power. Look how Bernie Sanders was treated. I think just staying out of politically charged topics would be best. There are frequent attempts to pull big organizations into the mess, such as those call outs on Twitter along the lines of

"Hey, company X! Why aren't you issuing any statement on topic Y?"

Those are baits and should simply be ignored. Companies are frequently goaded into making social statements that way. Then, once they are committed to a position, the trap is laid. Then those keyboard activists have even more power than before because they got a reaction out of a company. It also serves the function of having someone commit to a position, which then can be attacked. If your position is not known or unclear, it is harder to attack you. Once they have committed to a position, though, activists and grifters can get their hooks in. It's more of a gaslighting and abuse technique than anything.

Companies that are "proactive" and stupid enough to seek out getting involved in such hot topics are asking for embarrassment IMHO. You simply can't win with those people. Someone is going to fling poo at them, either for speaking up or for shutting up. It's best to stay out of it, but companies are still in the process of learning that.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

One of the most rattling things about these past few nights is seeing almost everyone I know, even people who before this were mostly apolitical, come out in support of the violence. I've seen so many posts about white privilege, about police brutality, approval of and excuses for looting. What's even worse is I've seen only one person pushing back against the narrative (and to be frank he does a very mediocre job of it). I see people parroting things that are factually unrealities- "hands up don't shoot", shit about Russians and the election, the idea that 6 gorillian blacks are murdered by the thug police every year. But no one says otherwise. Not one of them stops to wonder how, when everyone and their mother is acknowledging their white privilege, when everyone is so anti-racism, when we've been taught diversity and acceptance since childhood, is society so racist and where did all these racists come from and how did they all seemingly end up in the police force?

The truth does not seem to matter right now. Logic does not seem to matter right now. When I don't feel like Winston Smith, I feel like Marge at the end of Fargo. I just don't understand it.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

Maybe they think that "cannibalism" derives from "cannabis" and they are just for pot legalization.

The breakdown is something like:
1- obvious shitposter/pathological contrarian that nonetheless will be used as a punching bag.
1- legitimately insane person with zero filter that shouldn't be allowed to bring a barbecue and infants within a country mile of each other.
1- La Raza radical who rabidly embraces the worst aspects of the Aztecs- the worst of the Mexica culture groups (and hated by the rest due to their human sacrifices and ritual cannibalism)
2- Furries with vore fetishes.

 

[Polystyrene Glioblastoma]

I've had friends turn their backs on me, a cop, and family members say that I'm "an enabler" for taking a position against rioting. They clearly don't understand the 1st amendment does not include infringement upon other's rights, which is not protesting. All the people that are buying into this woke faggotry by destroying local businesses (some owned by minorities) don't need to call the police if they're threatened or harmed. We're all apparently racist.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

gud boi/gal points.