Josh Benner

Tag: protests

  • no, looting is not just like the boston tea party

    If you look at the Boston Tea Party as a justification for rioting and looting today as a response to an unfair system, to oppression, as long as the system is the way that it is, by the logic of your justification, shouldn’t rioting and looting be justified at anytime until the system is changed?…

  • Uncivil disobedience: looting and riots are counterproductive

    Over the weekend, violent protests erupted throughout the nation and in other parts of the world. Parts of large cities have been turned into urban war zones. Much of the country has been put under curfews. Any justice loving person was outraged by what happened to George Floyd on Monday. But these riots are not…