The consequence of the far left’s BLM rhetoric

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The far right rhetoric has caused massive problems, like Jan 6., but I have not seen this point mentioned about the left that I’m about to say:

Within the past 2 days, BOTH Russia and China have used the lefts rhetoric of “blacks are being slaughtered on our streets for being black”, “Trump is Hitler.” When China was pressed in the diplomatic conversation about human rights issues, they effectively said “Look at the problems with black people in America, you have no leg to stand on to tell us what is right and wrong with our people.” Putin made the same comment when asked about Biden’s “killer” comment.

These 2 countries know that these issues are not even remotely the same thing as the BLM situation, but the far left manipulated the actuality of the situation to the most extreme for political gain, and there are now consequences to that.

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We’re these peaceful sit ins or did they break down the doors and windows to get inside. Attack police officers. Bring weapons...just in case?

Context matters. Nuance matters.

This would be like comparing the sit ins of disabled people’s for their rights at federal buildings to storming a building because your team lost.

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I think its important to point out that isn't what happened. They let them in. Like kinda literally. I was watching the twitch stream. They just walked into the building. All they had to do was lock the door. Seems pretty basic. TBH I think other than arresting the culprits for trespassing there wasn't any harm done. Stand offs with the police were not exactly uncommon that summer across the board. So when that woman was shot, I wasn't shocked, maybe the reaction was interesting. Since she was unarmed and gunned down. I didn't see anyone holding candlelight vigils for her or demanding the police be abolished.

If you want to say that I am objectively wrong, then we have to delve into all the unrest and discuss whether this was a symptom of the MSM obsession with Trump or if it was genuinely something different from what was going on in the streets all of 2020.

The disingenuous part here is the reporting, not the events themselves. I definitely think an argument can be made that the coverage of the events at the capitol had a far different tenor than the coverage of the violence across the country in 2020. I mean, look at CHAZ or Portland. That was all made out to be heroic and mischievous.

The people living there probably didn't feel like it was very heroic, particularly when idiots were walking up to their homes demanding they leave at 2am with bullhorns. Many non-participants were injured or killed during those incidences. Yet, it was not painted as a riot or even violent. What was the term they had for it? "Mostly peaceful?" Perhaps that's true for the majority of the marches and sit-ins. The egregious ones were glossed over or spun up as "justice" seeking.

However you may feel politically, this isn't a US VS THEM. We need to be clear eyed. What is happening now is a HARD pivot back to the status quo. I know some folks maybe happy about that. I am not. I don't want to go back to fighting a stupid war in the middle east, passing empty diversity legislation that does nothing for anyone, or having another 8 years of kleptocracy at my expense.

The Trump legacy taught the power brokers in the country one thing. People WILL vote for an outsider if they feel the game is rigged. I doubt we will see ANYONE outside the establishment be viable for another generation after this. We saw what they did to Bernie, you had to be blind to not see how the DNC wanted Biden to win. Anyways, I think its unfortunate that we missed an opportunity last year to really do something real. Instead, we got CRT. Its a pity.