Quote Originally Posted by Suzanne View Post
I'm with you. A riot is a riot, a thug is a thug, destruction is destruction. Why are the Baltimore protestors, who are protesting police killings of unarmed Black men, evil while white rioters who carry out exactly the same actions because their team won or lost are described as celebrants? Just to make it crystal clear: I am very much against violence and destruction. I'm also against flat-out hypocrisy and double standards. And I consider the violence and rioting over a game - a GAME - immeasurably worse than riots over violated civil rights.

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Protester does not automatically equal thug - but this seems to be what people and the media say. And not everyone who is a thug was a protester.

When property gets damaged and cars overturned after a sports event, we do not say sports spectators are thugs, we always say some folks got out of hand. But the protesters get smeared with a broad brush.

If there was a march to protest the riots and violence, or to march for the police, and some folks used the opportunity to cause more violence, are these protesters thugs as well?