Violence is often the best available action for systematically disadvantaged groups

Evidence

Violence here is, as in all CA theories, a “move” likely to be made if expected costs do not exceed expected benefits—more accurately, violence is used if it is the best available course of action. For manifest reasons, it often is for systematically disadvantaged groups. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4309

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Directly challenges the moral framing that stigmatizes collective violence as irrational — it reframes violence as coldly rational cost-benefit, perhaps most rational for those at the bottom.