The supreme slander against every riot and rioter is that "they destroyed property" as if this were the ultimate damnation of a person. I'm not demonizing the shopkeepers whose stores were damaged or destroyed by the riots, I'm simply stating that it is not something anyone should be particularly concerned about.
I mean, we're talking about police murder and cover up, and what people are outraged and damning people for is that a few shops got looted? Talk about a misjudgment of priorities!
But even if the vandalism was central to the issue, it's not something we should be regretting anyway and not something that should damn a movement in our eyes (unless you're a business owner or wealthy yourself), because they're already not on our side.
The very institution of the police exists to protect those kinds of people [the propertied classes] from the great un-propertied masses, so this sort of brutality on the police's part is in fact done in their name, in private property's name. I honestly don't care if their shops get burned and looted by the poor whom they oppress and the police brutalize in their name.
But like I said, it's not central to the issue here, and people are trying to make it central and redirect away from the racism and police militarization which is at hand, and the corresponding shut down of First Amendment Rights in the city of Ferguson, and anywhere the police deem suitable (Boston last year, anyone?).
