conservative straw man tactic wrote:
JRBES wrote:
There's a guy a few posts above who said looting is just a racist accusation of some sort. There are some other guys saying the looting "wouldn't have happened if..." as if this somehow justifies it.
None of those posts condoned looting. Saying that it wouldn't have happened had the cops not killed Floyd isn't justifying looting - it's pointing out the cause of it. Come on, you're better than these false accusations.
The statement has implied justification. Similarly, if someone said "Ahmaud Arbery wouldn't have been killed if he hadn't trespassed in homes," even if it were technically accurate, wrongly implies justification.