Flowers: LA riots bring out another show of doublespeak from the left

Flowers: LA riots bring out another show of doublespeak from the left

I have watched with bemusement as some Democrats — not all, and some Libertarians, not all — have excused, justified or otherwise supported the so-called “peaceful protests” in Los Angeles, and in other cities around the country. They have seen cars burning, police attacked and property vandalized, and have been able to dismiss these things as “aberrations.” They have been aided and assisted in this by many in the media, especially the legacy me…

Scholar’s response to riots: Is property destruction a ‘reasonable, articulate expression’?

Stores like Apple, Nike ‘cannot be reasonably presented as a social good’ Just in time to coincide with what is happening in Los Angeles (and elsewhere), a lecturer at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research wonders if destroying others’ property is a “reasonable and articulate expression in itself.” For R.H. Lossin, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow and “leading scholar of the theory and… Source