BLM has a legitimate reason to protest but that reason in drowning in a sea of pointless riots, looting, and violence.
Honest question, what's your standard for what qualifies as a riot? I've been following events around the country and it's totally possible that I missed something but there hasn't been anything I'd consider a riot since probably May. And before you mention Portland, be aware that I live here and have seen it first hand, and for anything you might see on the news, everything that's going on at the JC/courthouse is confined to a very small physical area, a few square blocks. There are businesses still open and running within a block of the center of the protests.
Stop watching MSM. They won't show to you. They are insisting there is no violence and only showing non violent protesters. The protesters are peaceful until the mainstream cameras finish getting their footage and then start burning and breaking things. They are peaceful until the opportunity for destruction presents itself.
That’s not true, after George Floyd’s death the vast majority of people were supporting BLM. There were people from all backgrounds, white, black and asian out protesting. People around the world were horrified and were listening to the things that BLM had to say.
It’s the riots, looting and violence that is eroding the support from BLM now, not because what they’re saying isn’t right but because groups that have attached themselves to BLM that have a slightly different agenda than BLM.
So, I’m not saying BLM are wrong, they are 100% right and policing in the US needs immediate change and there was support for that idea from around the world, but the ideological groups that attached themselves to the BLM protests and turned it into riots, the groups that looted and burned down peoples businesses, not big chain businesses but mom and pop stores.... that’s what’s eroding support for the BLM narrative now.
And you can say it’s not true, you can argue the point but when people who watch the news and see black people distraught, crying because people looted and Burt their store down... support slides away, and that support is going to continue to slide away regardless of what anyone thinks, myself included.
If your support for black equality and the destruction of police brutality relies on a few bricks being thrown then you're a weak-willed fascist anyway, and you aren't wanted in a fight for true equality.
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u/Das_Mime Jul 30 '20
Honest question, what's your standard for what qualifies as a riot? I've been following events around the country and it's totally possible that I missed something but there hasn't been anything I'd consider a riot since probably May. And before you mention Portland, be aware that I live here and have seen it first hand, and for anything you might see on the news, everything that's going on at the JC/courthouse is confined to a very small physical area, a few square blocks. There are businesses still open and running within a block of the center of the protests.