None so as straightforward as the Koreatown shop owners.

Or rather, as juicy of a soundbite to terrified whites and racists who cling to their guns

The Rodney King Riots were the largest and most devastating riots in the United States, of course people are going to refer to that when another riot breaks out.

Where were these comparisons during the Stanley cup riots or any similar sporting/event/protest turned riot thst involves mostly white people? All the rallying to "shoot to kill" and "can't wait to pump them full of hot lead" is mysteriously absent then.

I don't think anybody's thinking 'I wish I was in 1992 Los Angeles with a Remington and a MAC10', it's just an 'If I were there' scenario, in which you couldn't fault anyone for defending themselves. I've never seen anyone on Reddit discuss the idea of committing hood genocide unprovoked.

"Unprovoked", keyword here. A legal, justifiable excuse to gun down black people and look like a hero. Most healthy minded people don't openly fantasize about how they'd love to shoot looters and rioters, especially and only when they're black.

The difference being these people actually look forward to the idea, and drive into riots to stand on street corners, open carrying.

So does reddit, they're just too cowardly to march in with guns looking to shoot.

If I insinuated that you were, than I apologize, others I've seen in circlebroke discussion are lambasting redditors for looking down on rioters before considering their socio-economic situation and institutional oppression. This should be kept in mind, but by no means should this excuse such behavior.

I don't think that's excusing the behavior so much as it's a response to the "oh look, black people behaving badly...again" rhetoric that's rife in the rest of reddit.

Implying?

Implying...? I'm saying there's people, black people even, who are condemning the rioting without the racist, gun fetush baggage reddit brings to the table. I prefer to listen to them; it's not a dichotomy.

Well, riotting should be condemned.

As 99% of everyone is.

And it's not difficult to see why it occurs, quelled up hatred of the status-quo ignited by a particular example of police injustice.

Tell that to the defaults.

I get that Political Correctness is Reddit's big bogeyman, but I honestly haven't seen any specific mentioning of it in any riot discussion.

Variations of it are rife in the linked thread. "Oh you can't oppose the attempted murder of a white guy without being called a racist" and so on.