Ocasio-Cortez: Marginalized Communities ‘Have No Choice But To Riot’

Do they really have no choice but to riot? How bad do things have to get for rioting to be acceptable? Does this qualify as a threat?

 

I'd say it qualifies as an appeal to the low-lifes, as incitement to riot, to violence... and of course, to blaming all of the unsatisfactory parts of your life on someone else, which will be corrected if you just give me what I want....

 

The problem with have nots is there is never enough to raise them to the level of Haves. Poor people tend to stay poor simply because they cant control or manage spending!

 

Desperation causes people to do irrational things whether they be black,orange or white1

 

Poor choice of words... I'm assuming she means protest... riots are the unlawful version,

 

You're absolutely right. People are desperate because Democrats want them to be desperate. Desperate people vote for Democrats because only Democrats are experts at giving away other peoples' money. They out did themselves this week. In 2 days we saw proposals to give away $200T.

A father in the home usually provides a roadmap for 'marginalized' people to find their way out. That's why Democrats like LBJ and the current gaggle put in place systems that motivate working fathers to leave the home. 65% of the kids in Baltimore ghettos grow up in single parent homes ,,, that's black, orange and white.

 

Shes just another violent leftist.


And now I will be banned again for pointing out that leftists are violent.

 

There is no excuse for a riot. Protest, yes. Forceful exercise, perhaps. Rioting, chaotic violence, is insanity.

 

Who are you trying to kid? Silencing opposing opinions is an Antifa / Progressive MO

 

Perhaps it would be worthwhile to look at the history of marginalization. Seems like the root cause of riots is more complicated:

Carter – 7

1. 1977 – Humboldt Park riot, June 5–6, Chicago, Illinois
2. 1977 – New York City Blackout riot 1977, July 13–14, New York City, New York
3. 1978 – Moody Park riot, May 5, 1978, Houston, Texas
4. 1979 – White Night riots, May 1979, San Francisco, California
5. 1979 – Greensboro massacre, November 3, Greensboro, North Carolina
6. 1980 – New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, February 2–3, Santa Fe, New Mexico
7. 1980 – Miami riot 1980, May 17–19, Miami, Florida
   

Reagan – 4

1. 1982 – Miami riot 1982, Dec. 28, A Miami policeman shoots a black video game player in an arcade. Riots breakout in the Overtown section of Miami. Miami, Florida
2. 1986 – Marquette Park KKK rally, June 28, Chicago, Illinois
3. 1988 – Tompkins Square Park riot, August 6–7, New York City
4. 1988 – Cedar Grove, Shreveport, Louisiana

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  GHW Bush – 4

1. 1991 – 1991 Washington, DC riot, Mount Pleasant riot, May 5–9, Washington, D.C.
2. 1991 – Crown Heights riot, August 1991, Brooklyn, New York
3. 1992 – L.A. Rodney King riots, April–May 1992, Los Angeles, California
4. 1992 – 1992 Washington Heights riots, July 4–7, Manhattan, New York, Dominican community
   

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  Clinton - 8

1. 1994 – Eastside Lexington riots, October 26, 1994, Lexington, Kentucky
2. 1996 – St. Petersburg, Florida Riot 1996, October 1996, St. Petersburg, Florida
3. 1997 – North Hollywood shootout, February 1997, Los Angeles, California
4. 1999 – Michigan State University student riot, April 1999, East Lansing, Michigan
5. 1999 – Woodstock '99 music festival incident, July 1999, Rome, New York
6. 1999 – WTO Meeting of 1999, "The Battle in Seattle", November 1999, Seattle, Washington
7. 2000 – Elián González affair, Miami, Florida
8. 2000 – Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks, June 11, Central Park, New York City
   

Bush - 12

1. 2001 – Seattle Mardi Gras riot, February 27, 2001, Seattle, Washington
2. 2001 – 2001 Cincinnati Riots, April 10–12, Cincinnati, Ohio
3. 2002 – Great Brook Valley Project Riots, August 18, Worcester, MA, Puerto Rican
4. 2002 – North Minneapolis Riots, August 22, Minneapolis, Minnesota
5. 2003 – Benton Harbor riot, June 2003, Benton Harbor, Michigan
6. 2003 – Miami FTAA Protests, November 2003, Miami, Florida
7. 2004 – 2004 American League Championship Series, October 21, 1 dead, Boston, Massachusetts
8. 2005 – Civil disturbances and military action in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, August – Sept., New Orleans, Louisiana
9. 2005 – 2005 Toledo riot, October 15, Toledo, Ohio
10. 2006 – San Bernardino punk riot, March 4, San Bernardino, California
11. 2007 – The Los Angeles May Day mêlée, May 1, Los Angeles, California
12. 2009 – Riots against BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant, January 7, 120 arrested, Oakland, California

Obama - 25

1. 2009 – Akron riots, March 14, 2009, 7 arrested; and July 2009, unknown number arrested, Akron, Ohio
2. 2009 – 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit protests, Sept. 24-25, 193 arrested
3. 2010 – Springfest riot, April 10, 200 police disperse crowd of 8,000 using tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and bean bag rounds, near the campus of James Madison University; dozens injured. 30–35 arrested; Harrisonburg, Virginia
4. 2010 – Santa Cruz May Day riot, May 1, 250 rampage through downtown Santa Cruz attacking 18 businesses, causing an estimated $100,000 in damages. 1 arrested. Santa Cruz, California
5. 2010 – Oakland protest riot, Nov. 5, Police made more than 150 arrests as a crowd broke windows and knocked down fences, protesting sentence of former BART officer in shooting of Oscar Grant on New Years Day 2009; see BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant. Oakland, California
6. 2011 – Pennsylvania State University, Joe Paterno riot. Students riot in protest of the decision of the Board of Trustees to fire head football coach Joe Paterno. State College, Pennsylvania
7. 2011 – Occupy Wall Street (Brooklyn Bridge protests). Demonstrators blocked the bridge and more than 700 people were arrested. New York, New York
8. 2011 – Occupy Wall Street Oakland protests riots. October. Protesters shattered windows, set fires, and plastered buildings with graffiti. Riot police fired heavy amounts of tear gas on the protesters.
9. 2012 – NATO 2012 Chicago Summit, May. Conflict between riot police and protesters. Dozens of demonstrators clubbed and arrested.
10. 2012 – Anaheim police shooting and protests, July 28. Violence erupted after multiple shootings in the neighborhood by police that included unarmed Manuel Diaz. 24 people were arrested
11. 2013 – Flatbush Riots, March 11, Riots in Brooklyn, New York after the death of Kimani Gray who was shot and killed by NYPD
12. 2014 – Ferguson unrest, Ferguson, Missouri, August 10. Following the shooting death of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer, protests erupt in the streets. Police respond with riot gear, tear gas and rubber bullets.
13. 2014 – New York, New York, and Berkeley, California – After prosecutors and a grand jury refused to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner, protests erupted in New York City and other cities.
14. 2015 – 2015 Baltimore protests, April 25–28. Days of protests break out following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. 34 people are arrested and 15 Officers injured after rioting and looting break out. Gray's funeral was held on April 27 and followed by further protests and looting. Governor Hogan had pre-emptively activated the Maryland National Guard, while the Maryland State Police had activated at least 500 officers.
15. 2016 – Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, January–February 2016. 1 killed and several dozen arrested. Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon
16. 2016 – 2016 Donald Trump Chicago rally protest, March 11. Five people arrested and two police officers injured during a demonstration at the UIC Pavilion.
17. 2016 – Democracy Spring rally in April. March to Washington D.C. and sit-ins lead to arrests.
18. 2016 – 2016 Sacramento riot, June 26, A confrontation between white nationalists and left-wing counter protesters at the California State Capitol. Ten people were hospitalized for stabbing and laceration wounds.
19. 2016 – Widespread protests erupt in response to two deaths at the hands of police, the Shooting of Alton Sterling and shooting of Philando Castile. At least 261 people were arrested in protests in New York City, Chicago, St. Paul, Baton Rouge, and other cities.
20. 2016 – 2016 Milwaukee riots, Sherman Park, August 13–15. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
21. 2016 – 2016 Charlotte riot, September 20–21, Protests and riots break out in response to the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a Charlotte police officer.
22. 2016 – Dakota Access Pipeline protests, 411 protesters arrested. Multiple skirmishes with police, with vehicles, hay bales, and tires set on fire.
23. 2016 – Anti-Trump protests, Nov. 9-27. As a result of Donald Trump elected as 45th President of the U.S., thousands protested across twenty-five American cities, and unrest broke out in downtown Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon. In Oakland, over 40 fires started and police officers were injured.
24. 2016 Portland, Oregon riots, Nov. 10-12, Protests leading to riots broke out in reaction to Trump's election. 113 arrested.
25. 2017 – Anti-Trump protests at the inauguration in Washington, D.C., January 20. Objects were thrown at police, businesses damaged, and a limousine was set on fire. More than 230 were arrested.
    

 

Protests promote change, riots foster revolution.

 

And you are correct.
While getting ahead financially should include ways of raising the income, one must be able to manage income and expenses for that to provide long term gains.
For example, when you have a financial reserve, or savings, and an unexpected expense happens, you simply take care of it and keep moving forward, keep the revenue coming in..
If you do not have the funds to deal with it, the event may well cascade into larger problems and bring bring the cash flow to a dead stop.
When you income is small, your living expenses should be kept smaller- so you can build some savings to first buffer you from the inevitable "sh*t happens" incidents of life, and that in turn helps keep the growth of saving on track, and opens the door to additional earnings from savings, such as investing it.

If your level of spending increases at the same level as income does, and you are not spending that money on things that build and retain value, you gain nothing except temporary gratification- but no security.
No matter what level you are at, the process works on the same basis. The key requirements are good financial rules and the self-discipline to follow them.

 

Riots kill and hurt people and destroys private property and businesses. That tends to make the lives of those rioting and those in rioting areas worse.

 

Cortez, like most liberal extremists and many democrats, blame their dissatisfaction with life on everyone but themselves. If you believe in entitlements and that somebody owes you because you exist- then you also believe that in order to get what you want (and are entitled to) is to force them to give it to you. The endgame in that process, what is too often the mechanism chosen- is riots.

The people most prone to riots are the people least willing to manage their own lives; expecting government to do for them, and blaming society, particularly the most productive parts of it, for their condition. The irrational motivations are demonstrated in the focus of riots- such as general destruction of businesses, cars, anything in sight... most of which has absolutely nothing to do with causing what they see as their condition. Riots are like spoiled children whose tactic to get what they want is to make life miserable for everyone around until they get it.

 

What it seems like she's saying is that when things get so bad that people feel like none of their other messages or needs are being heard, they turn to rioting and then the messages are definitely heard. Not an incorrect statement. However I noted she said this immediately afterward:

So she's not saying it's the right thing or preferable to riot, just that it's an inevitable consequence of what happens when people's needs and wants are ignored for too long.

 

Leave is up to the typical pundits to distort her words and claim that she advocates for people rioting.

It is clear, however, if we continue on our path of ever increasing wealth disparity, riots will be our least problem. It's human nature, which the right wants to brush off by claiming that the have nots are where they are because of lack of personal responsibility.

 

Everyone reading "like, once someone doesn’t have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot,” knows that there will be serious problems if the issue is not corrected.

 

A lefty politician encouraging violence. So where is the new news here?

 

Translation: Given how well burning down and looting all the businesses in our neighborhood has worked in the past, we should totally do it again in the future.

 

At some point recently, even the lefty MSM stopped reporting on AOC. And since then she's become unhinged. Actually advocating for unlawful acts of violence? I thought there was a SCOTUS ruling about calling fire in a movie theater... I can't see how this is different...

 

Translation: injustice to the poor is a threat to society, yes.

 

If politicians make my drinking water unsafe to drink, is a public display of anger appropriate, yes.

She is not saying they should be a such violent riot and kill people that caused your water to be poison but yes.
Now this I thought was a talking point of the right with Jefferson's quote about government no longer serving the needs of the people

 

Rioting is not the only choice for the marginalized. Lowlifes riot. Heroes take up arms and revolt or build Killdozers.

 

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It's not like we hold elections every couple years. It's not like we have a record surplus of jobs. Never heard of rent strikes either. DNC Kool-aiders can rationalize literally anything ...