Last night after the Super Bowl there were riots in both the winning and losing team's cities, and while they did get some media attention, the attitudes towards these riots were much different than the attitudes towards riots that break out during protests, and I have a theory as to why this is.
When I see coverage of sports riots, it's usually minimal, and the newscasters never call them thugs or a danger to society, but when people are pissed off for an actual reason, it gets national coverage around the clock and the people in the streets are totally vilified, I've never seen that type of reaction to a sports riot.
When people riot for fun or in celebration, it is senseless violence, which in my view, makes it harder to understand and harder to justify than someone using violence because they are frustrated with the state of society. This is not to justify the actions of rioters who hurt people and damage property, but the media seems to have a double standard here.
When someone is mad at society and they use violence the media freaks out, and acts like they are the scum of the earth and there is no possible way we can understand their motivations, but when people riot over sports or something like that its just a "celebration" or guys being guys and they are not anaylzed in the same way, they are given a pass.
I believe that the reason for this is because the ruling class is not threatened by the idiots in the streets rioting over sports, but they are threatened by people rioting for political reasons, and the ruling class controls the media so what threatens them is portrayed as a greater evil than something that doesn't threaten them.
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