re: #272 iossarian

See, that’s where we disagree. The whole point, for me, is that the upper class looting, which goes largely unpunished, is part and parcel of the disenfranchisement of the rioters.

It’s not that we disagree. It’s that these are still different things, although one _may_ be part of another/they may intersect. Your point is that I was self-contradictory, and I wasn’t, and that is even if I actually agree with you on this point.

When I see the verbal disconnect in the “chump change” comparison (the lack of the causal link), the fact that I acknowledged “dis-t -> riots” as a truism is quite irrelevant - I have no idea whether there is _supposed_ to be a causal link there at all, or whether the comparison was _intended_ as an excuse. It could be one or another. Which is why I asked in the first place.