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Punk Politics #106 Why Riots?
As I’ve gained emotional health language and conceptual understanding, I now know and get why riots happen, including why it’s almost always tearing up our own hoods. Being born poor is essentially the beginning of trauma, and as it becomes its own cPTSD, assuming that your home life was great, which we know is not often the case in the hood. So the usual response to the constantly existing hurt is anger already in the “fuck you” or “run on up” attitude most of us exhibit. In personal life when you hot a crisis moment on top of that there’s …
As I’ve gained emotional health language and conceptual understanding, I now know and get why riots happen, including why it’s almost always tearing up our own hoods. Being born poor is essentially the beginning of trauma, and as it becomes its own cPTSD, assuming that your home life was great, which we know is not often the case in the hood. So the usual response to the constantly existing hurt is anger already in the “fuck you” or “run on up” attitude most of us exhibit. In personal life when you hot a crisis moment on top of that there’s usually a violent release such as punching a wall or throwing your game controller. On a societal level those crisis moments have names such as George Floyd and Rodney King. So when it’s a crisis moment in a way that makes an entire swath of the population feel unsafe, a riot is that violent release. And just like when it happens personally, the nearest thing is the target of that lashing out. Then just like our abusive parents did, the local authority comes in to dehumanize is through abusive scolding and violence. This is something many of us have been saying for years but it gets ignored. These explanations aren’t meant to be an excuse of but a reason for why the response to abuse is often violence. Because in American society we are the children in an abusive home.
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