{"id":93716,"date":"2020-06-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93716"},"modified":"2020-06-07T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T21:28:02","slug":"the-week-damon-linker-dont-willfully-ignore-the-complexity-of-whats-happening-in-america-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93716","title":{"rendered":"(The Week) Damon Linker–Don’t willfully ignore the complexity of what’s happening in America right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

The very least we can do is make a concerted effort to legitimize the pain and anger of African Americans, while defending the constitutionally protected right to protest. But this must also be paired with an unconditional condemnation of looting, stealing, smashing, burning, and destroying lives and property \u2014 none of which is protest, and all of which will succeed only in further rending the social fabric while giving would-be authoritarians pretext to crack down in the name of the public good.<\/p>\n

If that much proves impossible for us to manage, we will have failed. And in that failure, we will have demonstrated before the world that we did all of this to ourselves.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n

The complicated reality of America’s unrest, from @DamonLinker<\/a>:https:\/\/t.co\/8AUZ4DI7wI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Week (@TheWeek) June 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n