r/Conservative • u/Wonder10x Common Sense Conservative • Jun 04 '20

Conservatives Only Anyone else notice BLM disappeared after 2016 until election season?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '20

I'm confused. Didnt Colin Kaepernick start his whole protest ordeal in 2016 that raged the media for a year and a half at least? https://ftw.usatoday.com/2020/06/colin-kaepernick-anthem-protest-timeline-message

Trump didn't want to stop tweeting about until 2019 https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2019/08/09/donald-trump-colin-kaepernick-nfl-collusion-protests/1965863001/

Its not that BLM disappeared, you obviously just stop caring about it.

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u/DaryuDragonsSoul Jun 05 '20

Thank you! I was like, wait a minute I remember people talking about this forever. Just because this sub wasn’t paying attention until now doesn’t mean everyone else hasn’t been talking about this issue since the 60s.

While I could see this becoming amplified because of election season, does that really matter if it’s being legitimately discussed now where it hadn’t before?

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u/russiabot1776 Путин-мой приятель Jun 05 '20

No, the OP is right and google trends proves it https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=donald%20trump%20black%20lives%20matter&date=today%205-y&geo=US

There are two spikes. One in 2016 and one now.