Aug
9
Scattered Riot Thoughts
Do check out tomewing’s full post:
On the “they’re destroying their own communities” meme: problem is, they’re not. They’re destroying what we distant observers liked to imagine were “their communities” because we assume a commonality of identity based on geography and/or race without asking too many questions about subdivisions of identity/community within and across those. In the messages being reported by the media there’s a lot of mentions of abandoning existing fights between ends/postcodes to join in this - those “communities” are as relevant (more relevant probably) as local or bureaucratic ones.
Communities aren’t formed around branches of JD Sports, no matter how near they are to where you and your mates live.
