# Shopping mall riots

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 28, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-mall-riots/708393 "2014-12-28T23:40:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Polar\_Iceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Polar\_Iceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polar_Iceman)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-mall-riots/708393/37 "2014-12-30T03:51:47Z")

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> [@jz78817](#):
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> tell us why it matters.

When a black thug attacks a white person, the President of the USA expresses his admiration, and tells the world that the thug could have been his son.  
When a black thug attacks a policeman, we get riots in the streets.  
When a black thug resists arrest, we have riots in the streets.  
When gangs of black thugs disrupt public events and attack the white attendees, we hear crickets.  
When black thugs attack random whites on the streets, we hear crickets.  
When black thugs cause mayhem and criminal damage in shopping malls, we hear crickets.

Since black thugs have become protected species, we get their apologists asking “why does it matter”?

That’s why it matters.

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