article_snippet.sent: About how slavery and it legacy are artifacts of a time past.
article_snippet.sent: It's about progressives and conservatives and their competing stories of how we got here.
article_snippet.sent: The event becomes simply a Rorschach test for left and right, and each side sees in the rioting confirmation of each side prior views.
article_snippet.sent: For the left, it's about the deep structural root causes of the alienation and violence.
article_snippet.sent: Liberals gravitate on social media to commentaries or reactions that reinforce this frame, like the surprisingly astute comments from the Baltimore Orioles executive who spelled out why a long history of racial injustice and economic disenfranchisement made rioting nearly inevitable.
article_snippet.sent: Conservatives gravitate to Conservatives own frames, about a lack of personal responsibility or role models among poor urban blacks, about the failures of Great Society and Democratic programs, and about how it all comes back to a president (who happens to be black) who has divided us by focusing so much on race.
article_snippet.sent: What gets lost in this Groundhog Day replay of left-right frames is a simple reality that we all have to recognize: Both longstanding structural racism and personal irresponsibility are on display this week.
highlights_snippet.sent: Liberals and conservatives react predictably, see the riots as confirmation of Liberals and conservatives views .
  