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[–] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The Chicano Moratorium Riots - 1970

Attica Prison Uprising - 1971

The Wounded Knee Occupation - 1973

The White Night Riots - 1979

New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots - 1980

The 1990 Mercado Riots - 1990

1991 Washington DC Riots - 1991

Rodney King Riots - 1992

The Battle of Seattle - 1999

Cincinnati Riots - 2001

Oscar Grant Riots - 2009

Occupy Oakland - 2011

Furgeson Riots - 2014

Oakland Riots - 2014

Baltimore Riots - 2015

George Floyd Protests - 2020

People definitely didn't stop rioting after the 60s. They kept rioting, and the people doing it have been black, queer, hispanic, indigenous, incarcerated, etc. People who are on the absolute margins of society, that have the least to lose and the most to gain.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    People who are on the absolute margins of society , that have the least to lose and the most to gain.

    Kinda hard to make change when you're the minority, huh. Now imagine if 70% of the population rioted all the way to D.C..

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