ronburgundy
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This poll is about the degree of support for the various types of civil unrest happening in reaction to the Floyd murder.
If you think that racism-fueled police brutality is NOT even generally a problem in the US, then only select option 1.
The other options all assume that you do think racism-fueled police brutality is a problem in the US. Those options are ordered in degree of support for the property destruction and looting. For example, the 3rd option (which I chose) acknowledges that the initial riots in MN, especially prior to the murder charges, were an understandable, honest emotional reaction, but doesn't support all the delayed recent looting in other cities, being done out of criminal opportunism against innocent random victims. Option 4 and 5 accept looting even when done for opportunism (depending of race of whose doing it), while the last option rejects the very idea that any of the looting is being done for selfish opportunism.
Try to make your response about all the actual looting behaviors that are occurring, including against small mom and pop businesses, some of whom support the BLM cause and now will lose their business w/o riot insurance. This is in contrast to hypothetical "looting" against specific political/economic targets directly related to the injustice in question, such as the Boston Tea Party, or focused destruction specifically of police cars/equipment, etc.
If you think that racism-fueled police brutality is NOT even generally a problem in the US, then only select option 1.
The other options all assume that you do think racism-fueled police brutality is a problem in the US. Those options are ordered in degree of support for the property destruction and looting. For example, the 3rd option (which I chose) acknowledges that the initial riots in MN, especially prior to the murder charges, were an understandable, honest emotional reaction, but doesn't support all the delayed recent looting in other cities, being done out of criminal opportunism against innocent random victims. Option 4 and 5 accept looting even when done for opportunism (depending of race of whose doing it), while the last option rejects the very idea that any of the looting is being done for selfish opportunism.
Try to make your response about all the actual looting behaviors that are occurring, including against small mom and pop businesses, some of whom support the BLM cause and now will lose their business w/o riot insurance. This is in contrast to hypothetical "looting" against specific political/economic targets directly related to the injustice in question, such as the Boston Tea Party, or focused destruction specifically of police cars/equipment, etc.
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