Peoples's fear of the wealthy
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puschit-1 — 15 years ago(March 27, 2011 09:42 AM)
At some point, the rioters don't consist of politically motivated people, it's not anymore about suppression of minorities or whatever, it's all down to pure hate of everything and the will to wreak havoc. The more intelligent or lets say thoughtful persons leave the riots because it doesn't server their purpose anymore while more and more criminals, lunatics, people with anger issues and whatnot join the riot. Finally, for a short period of time, they can release their anger, steal, smash things it's like hooligans in europe that start fights and street battles after football (soccer) games, whether their team won of lost, it doesn't matter, it's not about football, it's about primordial urges.
So, at that point of the LA riots when they did their march it wasn't about poor vs rich anymore. Why did they leave Beverly Hills untouched? You said it yourself: When the koreans fought back, they left them alone. The rioters just picked on the easiest victims and Beverly Hills certainly is one of the toughest. Not only because of the better police coverage, also because of private security agencies, better protected houses, watchdogs and whatnot. -
chas77 — 14 years ago(July 16, 2011 12:42 AM)
My theory: at some gut level, the lower and middle class view those places as "holy ground," where they feel SO unwelcome and out of place that they cannot even bring themselves to LOOT there.
Interesting theory but I have to disagree. I was unemployed at the time of the riots and living with my parents in Van Nuys, watching the proceedings on TV with great interest. From what I recall the LAPD were not prepared for this. The National Guard came late because of a screw up with not having live ammo or some such nonsense so they couldn't come down right away. The police did not do as much as they could have for the first couple of days. Then, when the rioters approached the "westside" of LA - they seemed to swing into gear. Yeah, call it racist, call it what you like. I remember clearly that once the upper classes were about to be affected suddenly the cops got their cajones back.
At least that's the way I remember it. -
dinerfood-901-211557 — 11 years ago(January 11, 2015 06:17 AM)
Your right, and that's how the country was designed. It's not Marxist, it's reality. I wouldn't change anythingbut I'm going to live in some freakzoid delusion because I'm too weak mentally to think for myself.