It appears the conservatives are too afraid to criticize the quote for fear of losing votes on Nov 3. This is concerning the riots going on since last Spring. But by not condemning the quote they are indirectly condoning the riots in my opinion.
And if liberals and progressives use the quote to support rights for blacks and other oppressed people then they run the risk of appearing to encourage rioting.
Is there a way to reconcile any of this or reach a middle ground if possible?
The reconciliation you seek does not take place in a middle ground. It takes place at a greater level of understanding. As you can see in this post that you have made, it has generated not just attempts to clarify the issue to you at such a higher level, but scorn for you for having raised it in the first place.
In order to understand that you need to know something about the origins of feelings, and in particular the feeling of victimization. What people do not realize is that they have all been through what amounts to abuse as in a concentration camp, don't know it, don't want to know it, don't want to know they don't want to know. So my guess is that what I will say additionally if not already, will have little impact. But then perhaps the walls have ears.
We were all victims,, victims of abuse that caused our psychic deaths. There are two ways to survive that, by keeping alive empathy for the victim, some shred of self respect hidden behind some outward form of resistance, or Stockholm Syndrome, a capitulation of self and the adoption of perpetrator mentality. It is a sort of to be or not to be sort of thing.
How does this apply to rioting and its justification? It's all about who we blame which is all about the need to blame, the inevitable result of loss of real self identification, the love and capacity to live in the present as a person of capacity and or contentment. In short, all of this is the inevitable result of the fact that humanity is asleep, living in an altered reality, the rise of inner discontent and outward projection of blame. There is no body to blame but that realization is too painful to see. means that there is nobody on whom you can justifiably unload all of your own personal pain. The only way out is too awaken and that is a trip that takes you through your personal past hell, or some sort of mystical onslaught of cosmic awareness.
So there are two kinds of being a victim, the real one that we were as children and the imaginary one we project, that the bad people are either the people who victimize or real victims we see as victimizing us for their reminder of what we have done to them. So we have two forms of result, those who want to victimize victimizers and those who want to victimize victims.
We are all victims and where we come down is the difference in false self identification as to which false identity bull(shit) we happen to fall into gets gored.
So we are all victims but the targets of our blame differ. And we create what we fear. Those who fear being victims of victimizers will victimize the victimizers increasing their desire to victimize more victims. And this will swing like a pendulum back and forth as we act our our pain in our sleep.
This is the real riot that has gone on all around us since we were born and the language that goes unheard.
You are the victim and the reconciliation of that issue is within you and nowhere else. If you want to step off the wheel of Karma that perpetuates this endless cycle strive to treat others with more compassion.
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