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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think calling today's events a "race riot" is very wrong.
What I saw today was a bunch of white supremacists, neo nazis, klanners, and trump supporters (wait, is that redundant?) demonstrating, and a mix of counter demonstrators lined up against them.
What I did NOT see was a "race riot".
In my view, in 2017, the term "race riot" carries a shit ton of connotational baggage that has little or nothing to do with today's events. In my view, it changes the focus to people who should not be the focus of today's events.
Yes, I understand that white supremacists are concerned with race. True enough. But when you call events like today's "race riots" you conjure up images not connected to what's going on in Charlottesville.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Did not see that on the news.
Stinky The Clown
(67,838 posts)Mostly, I think it was well meaning. I just see it as wrong.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Can't see how anyone would have thought it was well meaning to call it that.
Sounds more like trigger words.
nolabear
(42,001 posts)Heaven knows it was the whitest thing that ever whited on both sides, but it was about "White supremacy" and that's pretty race oriented. On the other other hand that term is so connected to black folks it...hell, I just don't know.
Stinky The Clown
(67,838 posts)In the end, as you noted, the term is connected, for better or worse, to black people. That may well not be fair, but that is, it seems to me, how it is.
YCHDT
(962 posts)loyalsister
(13,390 posts)when people who were standing up to oppose racism were attacked. Standing up to protect white supremacy is a different side of the same coin.
JustAnotherGen
(32,001 posts)I saw out of control white supremacists popping off at the mouth and threatening folks they hate. That's not a race riot.