I think yall are having trouble understanding that LA is not burnt down or shut down. It is functioning as normal. The protest happened on a few blocks in a massive city.
Regardless, both are “violent” protests. So if you stand against one and not the other, based on the principle of anti-violent protests, you’re a hypocrite without serious convictions. Exaggerating the effects of the protest shows that you’re coping with the difficulty of accepting the logical inconsistency of your beliefs. These are difficult for the human brain to face, but it’s important to do so. It’s important to confront our own biases.
Both Jan 6 and what happened in LA had a ton of peaceful protesters with several acts of violence and destruction of property, where protesters crossed lines into breaking laws. If you stand against the LA riots on the principle of being against that, yet you do not feel the same way about Jan 6, you should confront your biases.
This is a representation of the area that was affected in LA.
As my father said, “BUT IT IS NOT ENOUGH for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.”