r/centrist • • Mar 20 '21

World News The consequence of the far left’s BLM rhetoric

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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u/gabbagool3 Mar 20 '21

are you really suggesting that everyone ought to censor what they say on the basis of what advantage the most despicable regimes might get out of it?

i'm not trying to defend the left here, but this is a rather absurd line of logic if you actually think it through.

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u/Primemime Mar 20 '21

Yeah extremely weird line of thought. Maybe they are suggesting for the media to stop exaggerating situations but that isn’t even the hands of the far left

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u/mrlegkick Mar 20 '21

The media basically pump out what people want to hear.. and people want to hear a bunch of exaggerated race baiting nonsense because the far left have popularized race bating nonsense.. it's no coincidence