Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
You can do the googling yourself, but there are the pictures of policemen kneeling before the same people who attacked them minutes later. There are endless media and political figures applauding exactly the same people who then - inevitably - went on to riot.

You can't separate the 'good' protest from the 'bad' riot because it's exactly the same people and it was always going to end the same way. If you encouraged this nonsense in any form, you encouraged its outcome. You don't get to cheer it all the way until the first brick is inevitably thrown and then wash your hands of it. You are culpable. You can't just abdicate moral responsibility for your actions like that.
So no institutions then. Good as that would have been very surprising and disappointing to find that our institutions were cheering lawlessness.

Individuals I’m not so bothered about, not everyone can be sane. Donald Trump, as an example.