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Originally Posted by Kich867
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I know you don't really care about this but--to be clear, the BLM protests did destroy property, it was covered, it was also at a national level on an outrageously larger scale than what happened yesterday across months instead of a day.
I only take issue because you seem to insinuate or assert that there were literally zero peaceful BLM protests and that feels intentionally disingenuous. To lump peaceful protestors in with rioters and looters because they're all black or something is a morally dubious stance--to even try to paint those protests/riots with a single brush would require a conscious effort to ignore any evidence to the contrary, and that's stupid.
Did the media cover the property damage to the same extent as the cops beating on peaceful protestors? No, surely not, one of those two things is far more sensational than the other. The outrage people had wasn't ignoring that rioting and looting is bad, it was that the people who were actually being peaceful were routinely being beaten and attacked by law enforcement that in itself demonstrated the thing they were protesting against.
The people that showed up yesterday to swing a flag around and sing songs? Dope, you do you fam. The people that showed up yesterday, broke into the capitol building, planted bombs, got several people killed, broke windows and doors? Not dope, they can go fuck themselves. The vast majority of people at that rally weren't rushing in there and causing havoc, in the same way that the vast majority of the BLM protests weren't violent looters and rioters.
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I mostly agree with you except on your point that you can't lump violent protesters in with peaceful protesters. I think you can and should do exactly that. You want to start and organize a protest? Great, have at it. But you should be considered one protest and be responsible for the actions of people in the protest you organized and/or supported. Just like Trump should be responsible for the actions of the protest he created.
This dynamic particularly irked me in the context of the BLM protests because (i) they say all cops are bad because of the actions of a subset of bad cops, but we are supposedly not allowed to apply the same standard to the protesters if there are a subset of bad protesters, and (ii) they were all about this whole abolish the police and replace it with community policing, but instead of policing their own protesters they just tried to wash their hands of it and say those people aren't our problem.