> Suddenly it was “racist” to take the nuanced view that protests are okay but smashing businesses’ windows and walking out with big screen TVs is not, despite the former looking like activism and the latter looking like a felony.

Aaand that's when I stopped reading this self-aggrandizing tripe. Give me a break, everyone was screaming this exact sentiment on mainstream media and blogs til they were blue in the face. Oh no, some actual radicals think you're an idiot -- that's because to them, you are. It wasn't racist, just stupid and unoriginal to hand-wring over "gosh why can't these fed-up and angry people just be nice? It's distorting the wholesome messages of the protest." There was zero backlash for this kind of namby pamby shit.