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Not "LA Race Riots"?

Hey, I'm British and don't have a great grounding in this topic - but I've always known this event referred to as "The LA Race Riots". For instance, the TV show "Drawn Together" references this name in a scene.

Is this name NOT used today, for some specific reason? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.148.47.52 (talk) 15:46, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As an American, everyone here has always referred to this event as "The LA riot" or "the LA riots". Presumably the inclusion of race in the British title serves to clarify the nature of the riots for people who don't know. TheNavigatrr (talk) 15:28, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

US political activist here. I hear this referred to as the LA Rodney King Protests, or Uprising. Riot is perjorative and a consensus mainstream media term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiltonhall (talk • contribs) 23:40, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That is insane. It was pretty clearly a riot. --Bongwarrior (talk) 04:00, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article title and POV leanings.

I've been going through the history of riots, many seem to appear to be in the USA. There appears to be a common theme however in the titling of articles on Wikipedia. Race riots where the rioting group were white are listed and named as race riots, but where it's any other group it's simply listed as a 'riot' and the entire angle of the article is revisionist. I'm from a non-English speaking background in southeast Asia, and find this hypocrisy to be quite perplexing. Numerous editors (especially foreigners such as myself) point out in the history of this talk page that it should be termed a race riot, yet it appears to be outright ignored.

Can someone please enlighten me why there appears to be blatant NPOV slants on this issue? As someone with no dog in this race attempting to research the subject I find the overt bias and delegitimization of the victims of these horrific crimes to be very confusing. Vergilianae (talk) 03:49, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Good point, the reason is that the mainstream view in the public debate on these issues is not in fact objective. Therefore NPOV does not really mean 'no point of view', it just means not diverting from the mainstream view (in the media, because those are the sources). The victims of the current riot - even if they are black storeowners - will also matter less. We can only wait for the day not far from now, that these pages will be retiteled, since now rioting is just 'protesting'. Dg21dg21 (talk) 22:50, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Korean-Americans or Koreans?

Why is the term "Korean-Americans" used systematically throughout the article?

Presumably, many of the people involved were just Korean, i.e. from Korea.

Do we have evidence that the ethnically Korean people discussed in the article were born in the U.S. or had American citizenship? 70.18.47.212 (talk) 06:00, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Header image

Is there a reason the header image was changed from the old unique one showing 1st marine entering the city, to an image of two guardsman that is already contained within the article? 2607:FCC8:FFC0:28:219D:BE4B:7242:9DC7 (talk) 22:53, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Semi Protection

We should really add semi-protection to this Article since it talks about race SterlingTea (talk) 23:20, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't whether it has protection more about how often people vandalize? It doesn't really seem like that's happened a lot so it should be okay without protection. The Spirit of Oohoowahoo (talk) 13:30, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Murders?

I did a quick search for sources on "murders" during the riots and came up empty. A 2017 LA Times article about the riots mentions 23 unsolved homicides, but a homicide is not necessarily a murder; that word has a specific legal meaning and really depends on a court conviction. I don't think we should say there were "murders" during the riots (thereby conflating the rioters with murderers) without multiple quality sources to back it up. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 17:55, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with that change. The Spirit of Oohoowahoo (talk) 00:10, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]